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Reviewed by UK Guest, 23rd Aug 2004. |
| Review Summary: Under-rated compared to the iPod Mini |
Overall Score: 5/5
 
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Review: OK, so first off, yes, Hi-MD disks are near impossible to find at the moment.
However, this is a great player. If you use the 64Kbps ATRAC3Plus format for your recordings, they'll generally sound pretty good (not perfect, but what do you expect from those file sizes - certainly at least on a par with MP3, and generally better), and you'll get plenty of music on a single Minidisc, once it's been reformatted into the Hi-MD format - often around 9 albums on the one disc, and the standard Minidiscs are so cheap (around 50p each) that there's no problem getting several to do compilations for whatever mood. I will be happier when the Hi-MD discs are more readily available, though.
The battery life is outstanding - 20+ hours on the one AA battery - I'd be hard-pushed to find anyone who has a problem with that battery life, especially when you can esaily just put in a new (rechargeable) AA battery when the first runs out (unlike the iPod's internal battery).
The price is great - OK, so it's more than the standard minidiscs, and more than a flash-memory MP3 player, but you should really be comparing it to a hard-drive player, as the Hi-MD disks are more in line with the mini HDD players than the others, and compared to the Hard-Drive players, it's comparatively cheap.
Durability - I've only had it a little while, but I've dropped it a few times, without problems.
One last thing, if you had a minidisc skip on you in the past, don't worry about it with this one - I haven't managed to get that happening, even when I've been running. |
Ratings
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5 |
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5 |
| Recommended? | |
Yes |
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Audio HiFi