Questions about Sony MZ-N505

[Foxfire]

I have a question about the N505:

With the battery supplied, can I play for 56 hours? And if I need another battery, which?

And the earphones that come iwth; are they that kind that you have one in your ear, and to the other there's a line to the other?

And one more thing; a 80 minutes disc can take up to 320 minutes of music, but how much does a 74 minuted disc take?

//Foxfire

[KJ_Palmer]

You'll get a maximum of 20 hours with the supllied NiCd rechargeable battery. Probably a bit less as Sony's figures are based on ideal, non-realistic conditions. The '56 hours' are based on non-rechargeable (probably alkaline) batteries like Duracell.

Both these figures are based on playback of LP4 disks. LP2 and SP playback times are reduced accordingly.

(LP4 is the worst quality/longest time on a disk, LP2 is good quality/medium time. SP is best quality/shortest time per disk).

The supplied earphones are the in-ear type, one line to each ear. They're also cheap, nasty and uncomfortable and should be replaced by something better asap.

A 74 minute disk will record up to 296 (=4x74) minutes of music, ie. in LP4 mode.

[Foxfire]

If I want these 54 hours of play-time. can I buy these?

http://www.scandinavianphoto.se/large_img/7350041.jpg

[KJ_Palmer]

You'll need NiMH's with a higher capacity (eg. 1700mAH) to get anywhere near 50+ hours. And you need AA's, not AAA's.

[Daijoubu]

Get a external NiMh charger and Energizer 1850mAh (there's also 2000mAh now)