BUt dont you guys think the riovolt is sort of big and heavey? I really wish they made it thinner, forget that new radio feature, radio is full of crap like pop hip hop , pop rock, pop trance, pop everything.!!! AHHHHHHHH I am really leaning towards the riovolt since i wanted one when it first came out but never had a chance hear it. SO anyways how does it play regular cds for the people who have it. and what aoub the model 90 one opposed to the 100 one. is it just the remote? If so i'm just going to get the cheaper version.

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i have a sony MZ-R70 recorder....i love the thing....MP3 players are inferior in every way...

MP3's...no editing (its the static ram)
no tileing...

dosn't sound as good...MD has better compression tecnology..and it only gets better..the new sony's have Mini-disc long play...5 full length CD's on 1 mini-disc...

and a mini-disc costs...4-5 bucks ( CND )
if you go to asia regularly..they are about a buck..

as apposed to the static ram cards used in MP3 players..which cost upwards of 230.00 and there only 64 MB's which will not even get you a whole CD...unless you go below 128/kbps (and why would you do that?)

MD is here to stay...sony are now activly premoting them on TV

the larger Mp3 players are cool..but BIG ( ya a six gig hard Drive is cool) but it was never ment to be carried around ( Hard drives are delicate at best...i would not want to chuck my bag arross my room with the juke box in it)

and CD players that read MP3 are neat too...but big...

as are the CD's them selves.... i usually carry 10 Mini-discs in my pant pocket...(without a pouch)if i wanted to i could carry alot more... and CD's Scratch easy....and not all CD-R's are reliable in the first place....if you buy a spindel..you will see 1 in 3 fuck up( but you buy them 100 at a time so no biggy)

also MD's are RE-WRITABLE...infact with the SONY Neige disc series(the clear ones) you can write over them 1 million times (no lie)

the averge MD starts to sound crappy after about 2 years of constant use....

so why go woth the MP3 player at all....


Mp3 was menat for your Computer...and nothing else...

Mp3 PRO is new and much better than mp3...but not alot of peeps support it yet...but you can get 128 kbps sound quality but at 64kbps..so the files are smaller...remember Mp3 is a COMPRESSION format...( cna't beat WAv. quality)

But if you record your MD from a good source you can do better than CD quality

and well OPTICAL recording is just cool!!!!


PLUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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