For College Course.

[Tom Tom]

I will lay out what I need and If you are able to help I would be most grateful.

I need 5 minidisc players for a college radio course. They need to be easy to use but most importantly need a mic input not just the line in for music.

The MD I had at college is old and no longer made and there are all these new things you can do but the model I had was the Sony MZ-R37

It was easy and functional.

If you can have it transfer via USB for speed of upload that would be a bonus rather than the real time I used to work with.

Thanks for the help.

Tom

[A440]

If you want USB upload and mic-in then your only choices are Sony's new Hi-MD recorders. And if you're on a budget then your choice is either the MZ-NH700 or the MZ-NHF800 (same thing plus radio on remote), depending on which country you live in. The NH900 and NH1 are more expensive.

If you can live with realtime and don't need to download music into the MD (those are NetMD models) then you can find used models on Ebay. The Sony MZ-R700 is very straightforward and reliable, and some radio journalists I know use the MZ-N707 regularly.

Look through the equipment browser on the home page

http://www.minidisc.org/equipment_browser.html

for more information on mic-in units: basically, any Sony with a model number of 7xx, 9xx, 1 or 10 and nearly all of the Sharps.

They're probably all more temperamental than your R37, but if you're using them for radio interviews they should do fine.