Sony MDS-JE440 manual

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    Pr od u ct Revi ew Son y MDS-JE440 MiniDisc Deck R e v i e w ed by Gar y Ga lo Sony MDS-JE440 MiniDisc Deck. Sony Electronics, Inc., Consumer Audio Divi- sion, 1 Sony Drive, Park Ridge, NJ 07656. 1-800-222-7669 or (941) 768-7669, FAX (941) 768-7790, www.sel.sony.com. Suggested retail price: $250. The MDS-JE440 is Sony’s bottom-of-the- line MiniDi[...]

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    http://www.sel. sony.com/SEL/rmeg/ mediatech/techspec/techMD.html. Conventional MO recorders employ a fixed magnetic field, switching the laser beam on and off. With this sys- tem, a portion of the disc must be com- pletely erased before you can record on it. This requires separate erase and record passes, doubling the time it takes to make a recor[...]

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    er operating in the record mode. Dur- ing recording, the magnet assembly ac- tually makes physical contact with the top side of the disc. Like Sony’s low-end CD players, the MDS-JE440 is quite solidly built. FEA TURE-LO ADED DECK The MDS-JE440 comes with stereo ana- log inputs and outputs, plus a Toslink optical digital input. (A more expensive m[...]

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    I also copied several CDs using the deck’s analog inputs, fed from my pre- amp’s tape outputs. The sound quality was not quite as good as the direct digi- tal copies, but quite respectable nonetheless. Used via its digital or ana- log inputs, the MDS-JE440 is sonically superior to any analog cassette deck I’ve used. One obvious place for the [...]