I got to thinking about this when I was bidding for a minidisc player for the car. Minidisc is my preferred format even though it is considered by many to be a dead format. I don't need to be able to carry my whole music collection around with me and one Hi-MD disc will give me 8 hours of excellent quality music, plus I can record in the field anytime I want.
I do also have mp3 players, because I'm a sucker for anything that plays music, plus I have the usual hi-fi that no one should be without.
(OK, I got carried away, and I know it sounds like a "
I've shown you mine so show me yours"
post, but I'm confined to the house and bored stupid. Plus the list I've made will now be useful for insurance purposes.)
Portable players I own:
1998 JVC XM-R70 minidisc recorder with mic input. Records SP only. Still used for recording with mic.
1998 An original 32 meg Rio PMP300 which loads though the parallel port. Sloooooow. It was the world's second flash mp3 player. The first was a Korean offering.
2000 Napa portable CD/MP3 player. Still in occasional use - and still unreliable.
2002 Freecom Beatman II mini CD/Mp3 player. Occasionally used in the car for listening to recorded radio plays where quality isn't such a big issue.
2004 Generic 256 meg MP3 player/recorder, data storage, with FM radio. Used only as a radio and voice recorder these days.
2005 Sharp MT270H minidisc recorder with MDLP. No mic unfortunately. Still used most days.
2006 Sony MZ-NHF800 minidisc. Hi-MD allows 1 gig discs to record about 8 hours at 256k. Original 80 minute discs can be reformatted to play around 2hrs 20mins at 25k or 4hrs 40mins at 132k. The latter is perfectly OK for "
on the move"
music. The 1 gig discs can also record 1hr 34mins of PCM/WAV (CD) quality. My favourite player so far. (Also has FM radio built into the remote.) MP3's can be copied from the PC to the minidisc through USB, though they are re-encoded into the Sony ATRAC format.
2006 Sony N710 minidisc. Similar to the NHF800 except that it isn't Hi-MD capable. Bought to replace the JVC as it can record for twice as long.
Sennheiser PX100 headphones
Koss Sportapro headphone
Sony ex70lp ear canal phones
Creative CE360 ear canal phones on their way.
Standalone stuff:
JVC mini CD/AM/FM hi-fi connected to the PC and played through JPW Gold Monitors. Had these given with an amp I bought and they are *excellent* for such a tiny speaker.
Main system:
Cambridge A1 amp, Sony JE480 minidisc player, Yamada DVD/CD/MP3/Divx player, Kef Concerto speakers.
Music:
About 600 albums on minidisc and more CD's than I care to count, but probably around a couple of thousand. MP3's? Only ones ripped from my own CD's, your honour!
So, what you got?
)
