Sharp MD-MS702 Personal MiniDisc Player

Pros: Excellent
Cons: a bit pricey

This is a very nice package. The MDMS702 is light, small, and can both play and record. It also has a "Table of Contents" function so you can enter some text on a particular minidisc.
The current version of the package comes with two...

Pros: Can change disc, unlike MP3 Player
Cons: Need to name all the tracks

I bought my 702 when I was going to Hong Kong and haven't had any problems yet in the last few months. MD is an awesome format. I record music from MP3's onto MD. I debated between a MP3 player and a MD player for about a month. Finally I got both, but I...

Pros: Portable, crystal clear recordings
Cons: Limited battery time

This unit was my first digital recorder I've ever purchased, but one of
many I've used. Unlike many other models, the controls were easy to
figure out, yet the functions took a little studying.

While the wired remote control is a...

Pros: Loaded with features, great sound
Cons: entering music info is a bit of a pain

I love the Mini Disk format. For those who don't know much about it, I would suggest the following site to see just what everyone loves about the format. (http://www.t-station.net/md_links.html)

The disks are very nice and easy to store. The...

Pros: Low cost, ease of use, included accessories
Cons: Size/weight, battery life

With Minidisc being re-released in 1998 after five years of dismal sales, it may quite possibly be the fastest growing electronic market.

Sharp, one of Sony's closest competetors, makes a whole line of portable md recorder/players....

Pros: Cheap, Fast Play mode, Stereo and Mono modes, 100% digital, portable and light.
Cons: Hardly any

I recently bought the Sharp MD-MS702 portable minidisc recorder and player, and I got a lot of research done. The Sharp 702 had gotten rather good reviews. Although it's battery life is considerably shorter than other Sonys, it had other features that...

Pros: never skips, good design, easy to use
Cons: thicker than other portable recorders, adjusting recording level is annoying

If you want to step up from recording onto cassettes I would highly recommend the new music format of mini disc to any person who needs to record their music in a highly efficient way. Mini disc is a new way to record your music. Many portable recording...

Pros: Durability
Cons: Headphones

OK. This is my first review so if it isn't that great they will improve.
I have had my MD for about four months now, I got it in September '99.
Back in September Shopping.com had a sale on the MD. It was $200 with a $50 mail-in rebate. That and...

Pros: Everything but the power supply.
Cons: The power supply, of course, and battery life is only 6 hours or so.

The Sharp 702 was the first MD recorder I bought, and for a year or so I thought it was better than sliced bread. I paid $300 for it at Circuit City, but that was back when the 702 was top of the line. The unit is fairly tough, the sound is good, the...

Pros: size, performance
Cons: Expansion memory cost, control button config

The Diamond RIO PMP300 is coming down in price, from the standard $169 to a street price (after rebates) of about $99. It's a bargain, for what it is. It "is" a compact, solid state MP3 player with no moving parts...so, no skips, no jars, no...

Pros: Love it all
Cons: none

I bought this product because I was looking for something that was small, that I could take with me when I work-out, something that wasn't going to skip like my portable CD player does, and something that I could make my own discs for the music that I...

Pros: Ease of use, portability, sound quality, just plain cool!
Cons: Battery life, skips when running with it.

I actually have the MD-MS701 which is the same unit as the 702, just a slightly more "elegant" look as opposed to the "sporty" 702. I have had the unit for about 2 years. I got it while I was in Japan. About 6 months afterwards they...

Pros: great price
Cons: not the best battery

I needed a recording device to record my concerts and rehearsals, so I decided to look into a minidisc recorder. I’d heard recordings that had been made using them, and was really impressed with the sound quality.

I did some comparison...

Pros: MiniDisc Players are the only way to Fly
Cons: Battery power, bad bass

The Sharp MD-MS702 was manly the minidisc player I chose because of price and the fact that I have relied on sharp products for a very long time. I will give as many pros and cons as I can in every topic I can think of.

Audio:

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Pros: does what it claims and is very affordable.
Cons: titling is annoying and the headphones are terrible.

I'll be totally honest. When shopping for a minidisc player/recorder, I had one criteria in mind: price. My budget was such that I could not even consider buying the more expensive models available. That said, I still had some standards. I did not want a...