the mz-e909 has evolved

[rossel]

Hi Everybody

(Hi dr. Nick)

My mz-e909 recently started aquiring its own taste for music, i.e. he will only play a certain selection of my discs, and only if he feels like it. He prefers to lie on his back and he punishes me by skipping, if I forget to put him in his favourite position.

He likes Nouvelle Vague, Radiohead and Tori Amos as long as they are on sony discs. A tdk or a basf will also play sometimes. Did you say fuji? Forget about it. Unfortuneately he doesn't like any of my danish music and don't even ask him to play Under Byen, so I figure it is time for me to find a new friend.

I don't care for Hi-MD or whatever kind of high tech sorcery sony has developed. I just want a simple (sony) md-player with long battery life, so I've set my mind on either the mz-e630 or the mz-e730. I think the 730 will win my heart, but only because it's slightly more expensive and therefore probably of better quality.

I'm buying from Audiocubes, 'cause it's the only place I could find with sony's player-only models. However in Japan they use 110 volts and here in Skandinavia we use 230V. Audiocubes sells a converter for 30$ but I'm just so damned cheap, so if I can reuse the 3V power adapter for my e909's charging stand I'll be happy as a clam.

So my question is:

What is the input voltage for the charging stand for sony's mz-e730?

best regards

Esben

[Richard]

Hi - cut a long story short the AC adaptor supplied with the 730 according to the manual does indeed have a 3V output, but the better news is it is 100-240V input so you only need a european plug adaptor not a full step-down transformer.

[rossel]

I'll keep it short this time too :-)

Thanks.

[jaylen]

I don't care for Hi-MD or whatever kind of high tech sorcery sony has developed. I just want a simple (sony) md-player with long battery life, so I've set my mind on either the mz-e630 or the mz-e730. I think the 730 will win my heart, but only because it's slightly more expensive and therefore probably of better quality.

The slightly more expensive E730 should (keyword: should, because this is subjective) actually give you better sound quality. The E730 has the HD digital amp (helps sound quality) while the E630 has the non-HD digital amp (helps battery life). Audiocubes states that the E630 has the HD digital amp, but this site is notorious for some errors. Here is a link to the forum's announcement of the E630/730 and it has translated press releases for both units from Sony.

http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=5985