Sony D-NE511 Red ATRAC/MP3 CD Walkman

Amazon Customer Reviews

(4 out of 5)

Music Lover's Dream

A revelation in music portability.
I am a music lover and can't really conceive of not having music on for any extended length of time.
For this reason - One album of music is simply not enough.
As a result I ended up taking at least 6 or 7 CD's with me all the time. (BULKY to say the least)
I moved on to MD - very good. (4 CD's on an MD so 3 MD's is 12 CD's)
Recently I heard about ATRAC CD players.
I bought this one.
What a revelation :
Pro's
1. Up to 30 CD's on a CDr/RW (reduced quality sound - not too bad though)
I have used the ATRAC3+ format and have between 19 and 22 CD's on each CD-R/RW
The quality is indistinguishable from the original through my Sennheiser headphones.
That is over 220 tracks.
That is about 21 hours of CD quality music on a SINGLE CD.
That is about 19GB - which is better than a 15GB ipod - and you can have 5 CD's with you of 19GB each.
I have 3 to 5 CD's with me at any one time - that is 60 to 100 CD's.
(Plus my original CD cases don't get mashed up because I am carrying them round all the time)

2. Sound quality.
I said the ACTAC3+ quality was the same as the CD this is true.
The quality (for both normal CD's and CD-R/RW's) is wonderful with the right earphones. (didtch the ones that come with the player)
The delicate sounds of classical music AND the pumpin' base of DEEP HOUSE are both reproduced with WONDERFUL clarity.
Only if the original recording was suspect have I found a problem. (I have recoded at 64bps rather than 48bps)

3. Size/Looks : It is small and quite flat and looks GREAT. (I have the RED one - it does turn heads!!)

4. The jog dial and Menu's - From heaven.
It makes searching for a track amongst the 200 or so on a disc so easy.

5. It can import play-lists from Musicmatch. A boon if you use MP3 and have playlists you like.

6. The Simple Burner software is very simple -
a. Put the CD in
b. Make the image by selecting the track you want.
c. Burn the CD.

7. Can fwd and rev through ATRAC and MP3 tracks - most other players cannot do this.

8. Battery life : 50 hrs.
I have had it for nearly a week now and been playing it on ALL trips and at home and it still says battery's are FULL.

Cons :
1. The Simple Bruner software doesn't add the artist for the individual tracks if you are making an image of a compilation. So you have to either manually add it. Sometimes the nice people at the CCD dbase have added the artist to the name of the track and that is OK.

2. Start up time with lots on Cd is about 20-30 secs.
(understandable if it has to build a list of 23 CD's to be searched.)

Can't really think of any other cons.

Verdict : For a music lover - a near-Perfect machine.
100 CD's with you at all times. No discernable reduction in sound quality.
Program what you like or import your mp3 playlists.
ATRAC3+ is superb
I just put in a CD, hit random and let it choose - every track a winner.
I have had a look at the other MP3 CD players and MP3 players and no other model offers the value AND quality.

A QUALITY PRODUCT for those who need MUCH more than 1 hour's quality music.

(5 out of 5)

superb

Well i recieved this player today and i have to say it was money well spent. The Player is a nice shade of red and very eye catching. What was most important though has to be the sound though, and that was amazing, at first i was a little taken back by the low volume even when set to max but after a quick consultation with the instruction manual, i realised that Sony had implemented a audio volume limiting system which surpresses the volume obviously as the name entails. The good thing was that this AVLS can be easily turned off, and to do so you have only got to hold on to the sound button until the words 'AVLS OFF' flashes on the lcd screen.

I created a MP3 cd with 186 songs all at roughly 196kbs and the loading was of no problem, no more than 10-20 seconds.

the lcd display is also of good use though you would have to press the display button sometimes to get the full ID of the song.

The jog dial system is ingenious and makes life so much easier when browsing through a huge selection of mp3s, by turning the dial to the right you go down the list and to the left, up the list, pressing in the dial (not the clear plastic bit) you can load a song instantly.

Overall this player was definitly worth the price tag especially considering its price. This is one player that will bring hours of quality music all in just one cd!

(5 out of 5)

Excelent

This CD PLayer really is just as good as they say it is, it provides the user with ease in using the burning program. the CD player itself has excelent sound quality, i myself have previouosly owned 7 CD Walkmans in the last 5 years and this one comes out by far as being the best, i once had the Nike CD/MP3 player just releases but took it back after only few weeks, it was bulky and poor in sound quality, in contrast to this player it was nothing, this CD Walkman is by far the best product of Sony's accomplishments and so many songs can be stored onto one CD so there is no messing around with swapping and changing CD's while on those rickidy bus journeys to work! WELL DONE SONY and of course keep up the good work Amazon Team :)

(5 out of 5)

D-NE511 is a gud one/.

Yeh, this is a pretty gud piece of machinery. Nice build, pity the colour (IH ATE RED!!) oh well it comes in three diff. i chose the wrong one! boo. um couldnt get sonic crappy burner to work. even tho i have WIN 98 SE i think its SE..
PLays ptreeey loong time on a set of rechargies. and the adaptors surpriseinly light, nothat ill ever use it!. guddish earphones fontopia not the rubbsih short ones with the old supplies of mini-disc/cd player! LOL. AND bes tof all it plays the Mp3s that I have. on CDS which I have already, and it reads RW-CDS too YAY!!AND its DIRT CHEAP youd be a fool not to pick one of these up AND Its SONY!!