nicola

thankyou thankyou thankyou and thankyou!

i'm about (well, when i will have enough money...) to enter the world of netmd units (and leaving my great r900 to my brother) and i was eyeing the mighty n10... costly sure, but lost of style too... later my eyes caught the n910, which i formerly (and erroneously) thought just an old 900-series replacement. great was my pleasure in discovering none the less that an almost perfect n10 twin brother! the olnly things i want to check are a couple of features that are unclear at the moment, and that surely some of you n910 users can explain in a breeze. 1-rehearsal mode: does it have it? 2-QUICK option, as in n10 and others - the ability to stand by 'waiting' for user input and with faster data access (rewinds etc...), all while juicin more battery, of course. i hope somebody could help. thanks in advance nicola

I was looking at the images of the new units, and i noticed that the MZ-N510CK has 'type R' written in red on the body, while the blue MZ-NF610 (which apparently shares the same body design), has 'type S' on it. the latter has also a much cooler remote: one that shows song titles at least!

doesnt matter. well, some md audiophiles maybe could argue on that (yes: it seems that there is *real* people who can hear differences between same md recordings at the same quality and spot if the tune has been recorded by a sony or a sharp unit... these are things that give me the shivers!). Actually buying a cheap recorder is a good idea if you love the player you want to buy and you can't help it (like many people will do with the new sony E10 it seems... ), otherwise my suggestion is to try and buy the slimmest player-recorder! bye nicola

I'd also like a link from the forum to the minidisc community site, maybe under the 'minidisc community forums' text, between it and the 'faq, search etc...' menu bye nicola

I'm wondering if the N10 recorder would be just an exploit to celebrate the ten yrs anniversary, and some of its features would go back to 'older' sony standards (lithium batteries, for example) as new models will pop on the market. I think that some things like the new smaller optical pickup would certainly remain, allowing smaller recorders for the future. And by the way, do you think that Sony would launch new models (recorders) before 2003 fall? I want to upgrade my portable recorder and right now I'd go for the N10 (whenever the world model comes out), but... what if a new cheaper recorder with no ominous plastic bulges on the back comes out (eh eh, that's why i kept clear from 505 and 707)? What do you think about it?