Hi! I'm a spanish (sorry by my orthographic errors )novice on minidisc world. Since yesterday, I have a MZ R909, that isn't NetMD because I couldn't spend so much money, I buy it for 150€, and some people talked about it very well. I'm a piano student and my teacher has one. She recorded us and I get surprised when I heard me because I didn't think that I've done it so bad . Recording it's a very good system to improve your sound and technic. Some of my companions had a minidisc so I decided to buy one. Now, I'm trying with it with a computer headset microphone (just temporarily) and the sound isn't too bad (surprising, that poor microphone has a quite good quality) I want to buy a good microphone but not very expensive. I saw sony models of 80€ and 100€, and I think it's a bit expensive for me. I also looked on minidisco.com, but the shipping costs to spain are very very expensive. I was also thinking about aiwa. It has some models. How about CM-DS6? Image here It costs about 50/60€. They have also some cheap models like the CM P22 (Image here) that costs about 10-15€. (I think it isn't very good, but sometimes we can find things cheap AND good! ) Another models /brands? Finally, I have to tell you the use i'm going to give to the minidisc. I will record some concerts with a violin(sometimes, mostly piano solo) and piano (me) and some rehearsals. I hope i'm not repeating previous posts and Thank you to whoever replies, it is much appreciated!! PS: Congratulations for that useful forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edit later. I saw some specifications about those microphones aiwa: CM - p22 (the cheap one): Sensitivity: -48Db Frequency range answer: 100 - 18000 Hz Stereo Aiwa CM-DS6 : sensitivity -45dB stereo microphone technology electric condenser(AAABatery) frequency range answer 50 - 18000 Hz impedance 1 kOhm dynamic range 90 dB angle 90°, 120° This one seems to be good, and the other, not so good but cheaper. But i'm new so i can be mistaked. Please, help me!!