Rating: 
Summary: Great product with minor flaws
Review: I chose this model after seeing it at sonystyle.com and it delivers everything it promised. Instaling OpenMG jukebox(the software you need to tranfer the songs), took 10-15 min.(pentium III at 850Mhz,Win XP)without any problems. It's easy and intuitive to use, and any one that uses Winamp or any other mp3 player, should have no problems getting around. Just import tracks to the jukebox and transfer to MD. You can create playlist and sort tracks by various factors(style,album,artist,etc). A 5:21 track at 256kbps takes about 30 secs to tranfer, and a full MD at LP2 mode(about 3 hours of music)less than 10 min.Only problem is my winamp playlists are not recognized. The player itself is small, light and looks great in metalic blue and never skips. Some of the functions are a bit tricky to use, but after a week I've got no problems. Sound quality even in LP2 mode is as good as an 256kbps mp3. The remote, altough not very cool looking and without lcd, has all the basic functions you need and is easy to use. The headphones supplied are not very good and look out-of-date. Biggest problems, and only reasons why I don't give it 5 stars, are the fact that you can't record something with the player and transfer it to your pc, and the very poor manual and online help, in case you need them. Overall a very good player, excelent for those who have loads of mp3 on their pc.
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Summary: Great Mp3 player and Personal Recorder
Review: I got the MZ-N707 about a month ago, and I love it.
I'd considered getting an Mp3 player but [price] for 128MB is simply too expensive.
Here I can burn numerous disks with hours of music and get new disks for as low as [price] each. That's great!
There's no skipping like in Portable CD players. I've done recordings on SP and LP2 and they are great.
Also dubbed all my old cassette tapes onto MD using the Line In.
It's great to be able to consolidate everything onto this minidisc player with great battery life. Now concerning the software... I don't find it that bad, normally I don't make more than 1 or 2 recordings of my files so it's no big deal. OpenMG does crash every so often but not any more than my old win 95 machine used to crash. Plus all i have to do is restart OpenMG and it continues on from the point where it crashed. No big deal. Overall highly recommend it as a MP3 player and personal recorder as well.
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Summary: Not like I expected.. but still great!
Review: I had been looking into buying a new mini disc player for a few months. My last one had broken due to amny drops on my part and I find my mile and a hlaf walk home from school rather unbearable when their is not music encompassing me. After reading many revies and comparing the features... the N707 was the obvious choise. I didn't really need anything all too fancy... just something that was small, lightweight, had a mic-in and supported fast speed ording via the USb port. The unit is very small.. just barely wider than a disc about and fits nicely into my pocket. I had done recording on all four modes and quite personally they are sound prety good. LP4 mode does sound a bit tinny.. but to have about 5 hours woth of music... I think that is a small sacrafice. I think that LP2 msot is the best choice over all. The sound is still superb and you are given about 2 and a half hours worth os music. My only small complaint is the software.... I have foun that the best way to get around the copyright protection is to use nero to mount a virtual Cd-drive and then use simple burner and record from the mounted image. You can tehn use OpenMG jukebox and edit the files in any manner you see fitting. In the end I speak very highly of this product and recommend it to anyone who desires a small portable music player which is relatively to expan and delivers topnotch digital sound.
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Summary: Best Sound, Best MP3 Player
Review: I had other mp3 players(riovolts) but the sound quality of this is incomparable even to my new Philips CD System(300$).
I havent had any compalints with Open MG Software, it only crashed 1-5% of times(on 2GHz ,256MB RAM machine) everything will go fine after restarting the software.
Sound quality is really really great with the provided headphones. You would really enjoy crisp bass and treble on the same headphones. Its even great on the DJ closed ear headphones.
Its small size amazes me everyday.
Dont even dare to think of some other MP3 players(maybe except Ipod).
Rating: 
Summary: Could've been GREAT!
Review: I had recieved one of these as a father's day gift and I was VERY excited about using it. I had done some research on it before I broke the seal and I was quite enthused about making my own minidiscs full of Mp3's. I was quite wrong. First It doesn't record MP3 tracks to the minidisc, it converts it to the ATRAC format (so you can just forget about using the MP3PRO format). The documentation that came with it said that each minidisc is able to be re-recorded over at least 1million times before the quality starts to degrade, but my minidisc actually quit recording tracks in the middle of a song transfer after about 3 re-recordings. I was just put off by my experiences with the player, and if you plan on using the enclosed Sony Software package be well prepared to read "Engrish". You would think that a company as big as Sony would at least localize the software for release in North America, but maybe I had an early build. I really LOVED the size of the player and the ease of it to fit into my shirt pocket. The remote could have been a lot better also, I've noticed that on some of Sony's other minidisc remotes it has an LCD display. Maybe i'm asking for too much but it would've been nice to have that.
Rating: 
Summary: I can't rate this low enough
Review: I hate being told what I can and can't do with products I buy. If I want to buy expensive electronics for use as a doorstop, then that's my choice. But Sony, in their zeal to be all things to no people, has created this travesty of a product. Despite what the package lingo says, you CANNOT play MP3 or WAV files. They get converted to Sony's proprietary (and much clunkier) format. Furthermore, the OpenMG software provided by Sony for this purpuse [STINKS]. It is the ONLY piece of software that has EVERY caused a blue screen of death on my Windows XP laptop and it's a VAIO! If Sony can't get their software to play nice on their own products, how do you expect it to work with anything else? The interface is clunky to say the least, the conversion is slow, the instructions pitiful, and the feedback from both the unit and the software is so awful that you have to wonder if a first grade student who spoke no English wrote the interface. It's almost impossible for me to say anything positive about this product because it was so bad. It took me over an hour to install the software and another 2 hours removing it and cleaning up after it. It leaves stuff littered all over your hard drive. Not to mention that now that I've uninstalled it, my Quicktime won't work anymore. DON'T BUY ANY SONY PORTABLE PRODUCTS unless it's a tape player or a CD player and I'll bet you that with their CD players they're going to start putting in stuff to protect their precious record catalog. Imagine not being able to play CD-R's. Impossible you say? Just watch. I'll bet you it's coming, and I'll bet you Sony starts it.
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Summary: great stuff
Review: I have had absolutely no problems with this NetMD. The player itself is great, i love the remote, and the carrying case is also useful. The added car kit is extremely useful, and the group mode option is great for putting cd's onto MD. As for complaints about the ease of use of the software, I have had no problems whatsoever, i found it easy and intuitive to learn and use. It has never crashed, never messed up mid-transfer, and has worked extremely well and quickly. The added cradle for recharging is great, and it was good that a minidisc actually came with the package. Overall, this was one of the better purchases i have made in a very long time. I highly reccomend this to anybody who wants portable music. Ok, i'm now editing my review after having had the player for a month. My respect for this great product has not dimished, and in fact, i have discovered several other great features. There is a sound level editor, so that if you like to listen to music with lots of bass, you can change the bass and treble levels. I really like this a lot, because i mostly use this for music which sounds great with maximum bass. another great thing about this is that the battery life is really long. with one rechargeable battery, supplied with the unit, i have recently flown to AUSTRALIA and back without recharging. even though i didn't listen to it the whole time, that's like 20 hours of play time, and the battery was still like 3/4 full. as for the open mg software, i still have no complaints with the way it runs on windows, but i wish there was some way to run the program on mac. a few of my friends also have minidisc players, and we can't get mp3's from the ones that have macs. that's probably my only complaint, so if you have windows, get this product, it's great
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Summary: No problems ...only solutions.
Review: I have owned this model for 2 years.
I have mostly used it for self recording voice lessons, practice and also recording a live ensemble through a mixer. The sound quality is excellent both ways and there is good sound separation with a bi directional mike.
The only major problem was the digital rights management which meant I could not transfer self recorded material to my computer using their software, which is a crock.
My solution was to use line in and bypass the software and record direct to the computer in real time. I used creative recorder supplied with my Dell. I only used the Sony software supplied to delete unless unnecessary tracks prior to recording.
The files are huge so it is necessary to convert to a usable format. For this, I use Cool Edit 2000 available at www.syntrillium.com.
This is a top notch audio editing software, which can amplify, reduce, adjust and remove or reduce any glitches, dead time etc., and separate your large audio file into single tracks, which may be saved as mp3 files to burn to cd. You can then delete the original audio file to save space.
I have also used the player to listen to mp3s on long trips, and it is perfectly fine, although I would never buy it just for that reason. You can check mp3s in and out of your computer. It is easy.
For a microphone, I do recommend the Sony ECM-DS70P stereo microphone. With its longer cord you should not pick up the initial whirr of the machine which starts about 5 secs after you start recording and lasts for 2 seconds. This an excellent microphone, with good bidirectional separation and gives genuine stereo separation even though L and R Mic are close together.
I did recently lose my recorder so now I am thinking of replacing or upgrading to the Sony MZ-NHF 700 or 800, or the MZ-NH1.
I hope you find this review helpful, and if you do please click yes.
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Summary: Worth the Cash, but not the exactly as promised
Review: I just bought this product, and I'm very pleased with it. Unlike a Mp3 player, it lets you store a lot of songs, and its better than a Cd-Mp3 player also. Its compact, but not the most compact (see Crutchfield.com for more), but its has a good price to quality ratio. Overall, I am pleased with the sound, the options, and the recording capability, but the included program is a downfall. I did read the reviews before I bought this product and expected them to be true, but I didnt' think my computer would be the same. My computer is a Windows XP Pro with a 60 GB hard drive with a Pentium III 1Ghz. Good enough, although its a year old. I installed the included program which promises transfers of 32x, (it does say up to) but the best I get is about 3 or 4 x. I'm not kidding. I'm tranferring songs as I'm typing now, and its taking about a minute or two per song for an mp3 file. So speed isn't a good part, but this player is great. And for those who are new in MiniDiscs, its a good product. It's in between a floppy and a cd, so you can think of it as a rewritable cd with recording capabilities. My main purpose was to record myself play an instrument and it serves my purpose well. It has great sound quality...
Rating:
Summary: It's amazing.
Review: I just got it last weekend. After using it for several days, I can say it is really a great MD. Although it's a little pricey, it is worth every penny you spend.
1. Its sound quality is really good(I'm using LP2 mode), better than mp3.
2. It can download the mp3 from you PC also it's fast.
3. Using LP2 mode can hold double songs(about 33) than the normal CD. The sound quality is the same with the CD's. (for me, I couldn't tell the difference between them)
4. The shap is really cool, espacially the blue one. But there's still have some disadvantages about it:
1.the remote is not the LCD type, as a result it's somewhat hard to control.
2.The carry case is easy to drop from your belt(coz I often carry the Laptop, the first day I was using it, it drop twice.) After all, it's a great MD recorder.
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