MiniDisc Players

Decent budget MD player

Advantages: It is Minidisc, not bad sound
Disadvantages: Cheap made, no digital out

...fascia rather than the usual Sony aluminium, and the remote is standard budget Sony. Sound quality is basically quite good, great for making MD for the car, or recording off digital TV staying in digital from box to MD (I record off The Hits, TMF and Radio 6). Labeling a MD is a chore as there is a choice between a knob to twiddle or pressing buttons on the remote - three presses for C or F ect. Some MD players have sockets for a PC keyboard. ...

MartinImber 06.04.2004 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of Sony MDS-JE 330

Sony MDS JE 530 B

Advantages: Sony
Disadvantages: Its an old model now.

...you would expect with any Sony item. The layout on the front is pleasing to the eye, and the display is clear and crisp. The buttons are all clearly labelled and in my opinion exactly where you would expect them to be. The sound quality is crisp and clear and on a par with my CD seperate. You can use the editing functions to merge and divide tracks, move tracks around and to write text for the individual tracks. The editing menu is easy to use, ...
...consuming nightmare. The editing knob has to be turned until the desired letter is selected, then this has to be done for every letter you want to put in. It doesnt sound much, but when you are doing a twenty track MD with song titles and artist names I certainly found it a little tedious. As a summary, this was a great MD player in its day, and it still is in its own way. Its design, style and build quality are typically Sony, and if you can pick ...

tokenboy 22.01.2005 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of Sony MDS-JE 530

Amazing value

Advantages: Has everything MD's have to offer
Disadvantages: Sony have now produced soom better models

...very inferior tape format. As Sony have been making Minidiscs for the longest it is no surprice that can come up with the best deck, offering features which include a very useful keyboard input save time inputing those track names on the remote and 4 inputs (2 optical, 1 coaxial and 1 analogue). The sound quality offered here is next to perfect and the playback of pre recorded discs is good as well. The casing of unit is very solid and will match ...

DanP 03.10.2000 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful
Review of Sony MDS-JB 930 QS

Sony MDS-JE 480

Advantages: Its a Sony!! High quality, cheap price
Disadvantages: None

...1 X coaxial output. The player will fit in well with other Sony HiFi separates to make a highly competent home music system. I have been advised that the unit can now be purchased for around 110 pounds which i would say is a very good buy. Highly recommended. ...

Woody2004 20.05.2004 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of Sony MDS-JE 480 MiniDisc Player & Recorder

If you like MD's, you need one of these

Advantages: Solidily built, exceptional sound quality for the price
Disadvantages: none really, No USB connectivity?

...The JB920 is a Sony QS deck, which guarantees a certain level of performance and definately one of quality, nothing on the unit feels cheap, apart maybe for the remote. It is very easy to connect to the rest of your steroe system, especially if you have Sony components which have Control AI functionality. Even not there are plaenty of connections on the rear, both coax and optical digital In/Out and also Analogue RCA In/Out as well as a headphone ...
...you can purchase the PCLK-MD1 which allows you to directly connect the unit to a PC and using the software you can edit table of contents, set options and best of all, title discs with a keyboard. 2 problems with this though, good luck finding one and secondly, it connects using a serial connection and I haven't managed to find a USB version. The performance of the deck is excellent with little or no audible difference between the CD recording to ...

Panos007 26.02.2006 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of Sony MDS-JB 920 QS