Sony Walkman MZ-E300 Personal MiniDisc Player

Great way of playing back personal music with the full sound quality of a cd with 1 aa battery lasting some 30 hours.

A nice light and simple 'old school' MD player. It will only handle old style MDs (not Hi-MD) recorded using the 'SP' codec (292kbit/sec) - i.e. you get a CD's worth of music per disc. Made in Japan for the export market, the sound and build quality is excellent, but it is old school so you only get a small port hole display with no track info other than track #, toggled (if you hold the button down) with duration played. Forget about the control sticks you get with more advanced MD models - the only port on the E300 is for headphones.

Bass boost works well and AVLS is there if you want to spare your ear drums.

Bear in mind this device will not handle MP3s or even MDLP (132kbps and 66kbps - LP2 & LP4 respectively). Its beauty is its simplicity - b0ll0cks to the 160gig ipod - take the time to enjoy an album from start to finish in high quality sound without incessant shuffling and fidgeting. These are offered at £30 on ebay which is ridiculous (you can get a hiMd unit for an extra tenner if you bid wisely). But for a tenner or so with one of these you are laughing.

The Sony MZ-E300 is a simple piece of hardware with a single job, playing MiniDiscs while on the move, if that's all you need then it's a winner.

The MZ-E300 has a fairly basic specification, but still manages to have that typical Sony style about it. The dinky blue design is compact and only the bulge for the single AA battery spoils the clean lines. It's lightweight too, at under three ounces without the battery. The plastic case is a little prone to scuffing though. The connections are kept to a bare minimum; the headphone jack and that's it.

The mini disk is everything it said it would be an more, plays very well. I decided to buy it as through tht the price was fir an new I couldn't get anywere else cheaper I am very glad that I did.

I bought this little but well designed MD.

It´s incredible as it can play more that 30 hours of playback with a single 1,5v AA battery.

Sound quality is amazing!

I intend to buy a second one for my sister, as i have a huge MD titles collection.

You won´t regret!

ATRAC compression is far away better than MP3.


Good Luck!

I bought this product approx 8 weeks ago. At first it was working perfectly but for the last couple of weeks it has started skipping my mini discs and this is extremely annoying because I bought this to rehearse my songs with ( Im a singer). I may have been better buying a new one from the shop because I found that it would only be a pound more to buy a brand new one but this was the first thing I ever bought on ebay. I will know better in future!

Le MZ-E300 est un lecteur d'entrée de gamme ( il ne fait que lecteur ), et ne peut lire que les MD au format Simple Durée (Single Play ), donc il n'est pas compatible avec les disques MDLP ou Hi-MD qui sont les générations suivantes.
Il reste cependant un bon achat car :
- Il utilise un Pile R6 ( très très courante ).
- Sa Taille est raisonnable ( on peut utiliser la pochette de ceinture simili cuir Sony)
- Il possède un affichage intégré.
- Cela reste du numérique de qualité Sony.

Coté point faible il n'est malheureusement pas compatible avec la télécommande des MD Sony.

Pour résumer, quiconque veut un lecteur à emmener partout et se démarquer des MP3 en complément d'un lecteur-enregistreur ( par cordon USB ou par entrée Fibre Optique ) pour pouvoir mettre de la musique sur un disque, c'est un bon achat à petit prix ( en principe à moins de 20 Euros (05-09)).

Merci de m'avoir lu.
Cordialement.