Sony MDS-JE 480 MiniDisc Player & Recorder

I bought this minidisk deck from Dixons over a year ago for 130 pounds in order to duplicate CDs to minidisk. I was amazed at the quality of this relatively cheap product immediately. Everything is included in the box to use it such as an arguably to short optical lead and even a pair of RCA leads for the output to the HiFi. Plugging it in took all of 20 seconds and it was ready to run. Even remote control batteries are provided!! Disks can be played by simply inserting one and pressing play. The output is analogue but is indistinguishable from disgital sources and the digital input is superb. I reckon that i can actually improve things such as bass and treble on CD recordings by recording them onto minidisk using the graphical equaliser built into the HiFi. The unit can record normally and in LP2 and LP4 modes giving a total of 320 minutes on a single 80 minute disk at vertually no quality loss. Amazing!!! Once a track has been recorded the unit offers a variety of ways to edit it such as inserting a name, splitting it, combining it with another or re-recording it at a different sound level. Different play modes can be selected such as shuffle and repeat.

The unit runs on standard 230 V UK manis power and has 1 X optical input, 1 X dual coaxial input and 1 X coaxial output. The player will fit in well with other Sony HiFi separates to make a highly competent home music system.