t4tomuk

Hi guys, new here. I just stumbled across the site and its good to see there's an online community for minidisc! I've been looking at various sources and trying to figure out what's what and what md player/recorder best fits what I want but I think it's time I asked some people with experience of them I kinda grew up with tapes and then CD's and I never had a MD player (mainly due to them being expensive at first) but after having a portable CD player and an original mini iPod (I know I know, it's the only ipod I've liked because it's ergonomically almost excellent) as I grew up, I find myself returning to the portable cd player and it struck me that I should check out md players (and yes I was surprised to find out that there is now Hi-Md!). I've recently been getting along with Vinyl (too young for the whole Vinyl era) and I really like the more personal feeling of putting on a vinyl, grabbing a cd and I think I'll like md players for that same reason. Mp3 players just seem rather, cold in comparison. Basically, I just want a basic md player/recorder (not hi-md). I'd like to have one with two headphone sockets (like the old walkmans) but I don't know if any models have them, certainly seems new ones don't. I don't mind about software compatibility as I'll just be real time recording. Also something that can be picked up fairly cheapish, just nothing really expensive like some of the hi-md players I've seen. Also, I find any proprietary battery type things to be annoying, as they always end up going duff and then you need to find another, so anything that just uses AA (AAA?) batteries would also be good (Unless the rechargeable type batteries are quite widely and commonly found then I don't mind). As you can tell, I really don't know much about md players, and I'm not sure what features to look out for/which are quite necessary. Hopefully you can enlighten me a bit (I hope this was the right place to post)