Fast Eddie

I seriously doubt sony will drop MD. Trust me on this.

The shape of that control pad looks a bit dodgy though.

The 900 model is no longer available from Amazonuk directly. Just goes to show that it was the model that sold the least out of all of them, hence the big sale on it. Most people must have initially went for the 600, 700 and 800, Or the top model the NH1. Kind of weird as I think the 900 was actually the best of all of them.

If they can't hear them, why help them to hear them? Unless they want to of course. Ignorance is bliss isn't it?

It looks like it's made for 6 year old girls. And so does those blingin one. Sorry I don't like it.

atrac3plus 64kbps sounds to me like it's been mixed into mono and then back to stereo again. It sounds free of distortion but at the same time it sounds like there's a load layering to hide the distortion. I just don't like the sound of it. Atrac3 at 105 sounds better and clearer to me, even though artifacts can be heard, sometimes depending on the song. I also did a comparison of atrac3plus 64 and Atrac3 105 with just voice, and I still prefered Atrac3 105.

Yeah, there's still something very appealing about having music on discs.

For music on the move I often use LP3 105 but this wasn't included in the POLL.

I'd like to know the answer to this too. Also has anyone used the 900 as a deck? How was that?

Isn't the NH1 better than the 900?

It would be interesting to see how many hours of MP3 you could fit on a 1GB disc at 128kbs. How it could compare to the space you get using Atrac.

If you don't need MP3 support then take advantage of the first gen cheaper prices.

Tony, will you be buying one of the second gen units?

And some stations are even lower than that. Most of my music is on CD, and I rip them to minidisc with sonicstage.

Very sneaky of them, very sneaky.