Sony Net MD Walkman MZ-N707 Personal MiniDisc Player

Pros: Small, Durable, Great sound quality
Cons: Traditional MiniDisc cons - realtime uploads. Could use more recording features.

Could this be the beginning of a MiniDisc revolution? Could we be on the verge of a near perfect portable media and an efficient way to use it? Maybe, but not just yet...

The Sony MZ-N707 makes a great improvement on previous MD (MiniDisc)...

Pros: Convenient size, excellent sound, fast NetMD transfer, looks cool. :-)
Cons: Sony's software is an interesting challenge to figure out.

I was looking, as many of you may be, for a portable music solution. I wanted an MP3 player, but couldn't afford the Apple iPod I really wanted, and didn't want to buy a cheaper MP3 player with limited storage.

Then I came across MD players....

Pros: Excellent little unit, great battery life, easy to use
Cons: The software leaves a lot to be desired

I've always been one to spend less money whenever possible. Because of that, I've had an RCA player and a Memorex CD/MP3 combo player die on me. My most reliable piece of audio equipment was a Sony Walkman (radio+tape) which only gave out on me last...

Pros: excellent sound, versatile, tiny, intuitive controls, lots of useful extras
Cons: downloading software is clunky and restrictive

Portable minidisc (MD) player/recorders offered the same sound as MP3 players, the same portability, offered more capacity, but lost on convenience for recording sound. MP3 players, connected to computers by USB or even FireWire with matching quick, ...

Pros: Great LITTLE unit, excellent sound and easy to use.
Cons: The software flat out SUCKS.

I'll begin by telling the readers that I am a Senior Test Engineer on contract at Hewlett Packard. In particular I am a software test engineer. I've been doing that work for over 4 years. So when I say this software sucks, I mean that I can catagorize...

Pros: Sound quality; compact; variety of sound inputs and outputs; durable batteries; robust unit
Cons: Ergonomically AWFUL, non-intuitive recording methods; restricted to 3 copies of downloaded music

The long and the short of my experience with this unit is that (a) overall, it was great for its time (a time which has now gone); (b) it sounds very good; and (c) it has been AWFUL to use. Read on for a fuller explanation of these points. I first ...

Pros: Size,number of songs that can fit on one minidisc..amazing,Sony brand of course,shockproof..really
Cons: SOFTWARE is terrible,takes a long time to convert songs to Sony format

When first looking at a portable music device (lets say a Walkman for short) to listen to my many Mp3s I was torn between 3 different types: a portable CD player that can play Mp3s on a CD-R/RW, an Mp3 player that can accept memory cards ...

Pros: long battery life up to 5 hours on each disc high speed uploading
Cons: none

This machine really rocks! With 5 hours capacity on each disc, 50 plus battery life, high speed uploading, remote control, what more could you ask for. As an avid on the go type of person I love being able to have lots of music with me everywhere. T ...

Pros: Long battery life, very good sound, excellent portability, comes with useful accessories
Cons: Terribly buggy software, remote could be better

I was looking for a portable player of some kind with a few things in mind. It had to be small and portable, have excellent battery life and fit a large amount of music. The N707 turned out to be a hit on all fronts and it was less pricey than the...

Pros: Small, ability to edit, car kit, battery life, lot's of accessories.
Cons: Not quite loud enough, remote could be designed better, absolutely terrible software.

I've been looking at purchasing a portable audio player for some time. I bought the mz-n707 because of it's ability to record at faster speeds than previous MD (minidisc) recorders, good battery life, and the fact that it comes with a car kit and a...

Pros: Excellent Battery Life Great Sound CHEAP media
Cons: PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE- NO uploading your recordings to PC

I am writing this review because this is all the information I would have liked to have had PRIOR to purchasing the Sony NetMD N707.

Pros:

BATTERY LIFE- The battery is lasting me well over 40 hours. One (1) AA cell battery last...

Pros: Cheap media, USB connection, Ability to record.
Cons: Software is a horrible. Very slow transfers on slow PCs.

I was in the market for a new mp3 player and I had also considered a minidisc player as an option even before NetMD players were released.

Well, as soon as I heard about NetMD I just had to have one of these players. All the claims were so...

Pros: Excellent sound on recordings and playback, ligthweight, skip-free, good battery life.
Cons: Sony´s OpenMg software is horribly tiresome, restrictive and invades your computer.

I bought this MD because I was in need of a high-quality stereo live-recorder, mp3 burner and good quality portable sound. I did a lot of research, listening and ended up buying this little thing.

My review is very simple. The hardware itself...

Pros: The MZ-N707 is very portable and has very good sound quality.
Cons: Poor software. Bad installation routine. Bug makes SCMS prevent transfer of your own recordings.

I purchased the Sony MZ-N707 for my wife to use to record her fiddle club meetings. It works well for this--as far as recording and playing back on the headphones--but a horrendous bug makes the unit mark audio recorded with the microphone as having origi ...

Pros: Cheap media, large storage space, small size
Cons: Slower than advertised downloads, clunky software.

I'm no expert on the new-fangled music formats, so when I went out to the store to get an alternative to my aging CD walkman, I initially looked for mp3 players. My eye was caught, however, by the Sony NetMD player, primarily on the strength of its...