I just got one of these, but even after cleaning the sound is disturbed by a LF AM, you may call it choppy as if the speaker was behind a fan. Next step is to calibrate the azimut, but too reach the screws of the head, it seems to be necessary to remove the cassette lid. Any hints for that? Cheers bro.

I would like to try opaque or translucent labels to allow the colors of the minidiscs come through.

Danke für das Video. Habe meine zahlreichen Minidisc mit Hilfe der Druckersoftware von Sony beschriftet. (Das war mit der seinerzeitigen Windows Version. Ob das jetzt mit Windows 11 noch funktioniert habe ich noch nicht probiert.)

thank you for this video, i used the toslink methid and everything went amazin, i can now listen to my fav music on my lil MD walkman ^^

Royal mail are terrible. Cost me £250 this week and lost all mymparcels i sent

Never use WD-40 on anything like this it’s completely the wrong thing !

How to remove a tape that is stuck inside a car cassette player? The eject button fails to eject the tape.

Great review on lifting the toner arm

Had this back 1998. My parents bought it for me from good guys.

Coll idea with minidisc....! Have you tried lp4 mono? You can save hours and hours of computer programs this way. On the other hand the same way you can use mp3 and keep it on pc or smartphone.

That spring goes on the plastic leg that operates the “cover closed” switch

Hi. Great video exactly what l need to do. l have a blank lens and head cleaner disc ! Do you know where l can download the tracks to record to the disc as l only have the blank one thanks in advance

Is it a good deck??

Thanks for the interesting overview, concise and well edited. I'm having a retro resurgence lately and have been tinkering with CRTs, old consoles and now music too. I had a Panasonic SJ-MR200 back in the day and used to record sounds on it for use in video projects at university in the early 00s. I've recently acquired an immaculate Sony MZ-N520 and I'm looking forward to making some discs with Web Minidisc Pro and possibly tinkering with some analog or optical too. Thanks again

I have a bit of a collection with regards to vintage storage, and I have both 5.25 inch and 3.5 inch MO disks and drives, of a variety of capacities. I have yet to figure out a way to record on magneto optical WORM media with the drives that I have. The technology is really interesting, and I recommend sourcing a drive of each size (5.25 and 3.5) for your vintage use. Fujitsu makes the best 3.5 inch ones, and generally 640MB or 1.3GB are pretty common. A 2.3GB 3.5inch drive will read and write all 3.5 inch disks, down to 128MB. The 5.25 inch drives are a bit different, the higher capacities will not write to lower ones once they go down so far, and won't even read them if they're too low in capacity. I have the Sony 9.1GB drives, which seem to be more abundant and can read/write to disks at least 5GB - 9GB. You can look up the Reddit for MagnetoOpticalDrives at r/MagnetoOpticalDrives/ if you want to know about them.

Hi buddy ive the sj-mr230 with box and speakers...u interested

i have one like these exactly, but idk how to play or do something, i just have it.

Works transmit cassetteplayer to bluetooth speakers?

I found one of this in a chest in my house what they do?

I’ve got many minidisc players,I used to collect them as I worked at a recycling centre,But I did buy about 4 players,My 1st purchase in 1996 was a Sony Mzr-30,My favourite and I’ve still got it complete,boxed too,Only gripe is the Lip-12 standard battery was rubbish,But very expensive,I love minidisc,And always will.My second favourite is A mint condition Sony MZR-2,Good solid made machine,It was the ATRAC systems they used over the years that differed,Hope you get your 1K likes.

I recently got an SJ-MJ19. It wasn't working well on the gumstick (unit would reboot when even gently moving it around) and it was exactly what you mention, there was corrosion inside the hinge. It took quite a bit of wiggling the door back and forth while keeping it wet with deoxit, but it works great now.

I have a non portable CD player and I am looking for a bluetooth adapter so I can play music using my portable speaker. Do you think this product will work? Thanks

You have to do a testing stream to see if these games load. Those letter transfers were called Letraset. I used to label tapes with them, especially the Bush ones from Argos that came in completely clear shells, it gave them a more legitimate look.

I actually prefer the AA bump for holding the unit, and the availability and versatility of using an alkaline AA or rechargeable AA tips the scales even farther to AA.

I am thinking to buy a sony minidisc player and I wonder how to get some music there... I could found some blank minidiscs around... thank you for this video!

Just bought one of those Maxell xl11 80 pro new old stock sealed to try and it recorded beautifully and deadly silent in my machine..what's difference between pro and non pro discs? Thx..

Always satisfying when a repair job goes well.

This looks very familiar, I am sure I have used this exact model before.

Update on my aiwa system : i got 8t but the delivery man broke the main pcb, fortunately, it's a single sided pcb, i'll try to rewire it tomorrow

I am baffled at how this old tech with barely any interface works better than all the bells and whistles we have in our 2d displays. I am so happy I bought I got myself a MZ-R50.

Wow, I like unity ❤

So i have a sony minidisc player and out of 30 discs i have 20 work fine and olay fine along with audio but out of the 10 some show as playing tracks but theres no audio and my audio is fine as the other 20 discs play fine with sound so is there anything i can do to get the 10 discs ro start working and playing audio again or do i just bin the 10 discs.

This was my childhood

I had that exact JVC and the Aiwa looks just like mine, but mine had a function to record CDs and radio to MD... But it looks looks exact the same but missing some red buttons. I originally used it to record the XFM Ricky Gervais shows to Mini Disc as I used to be a big fan before people went crazy for the Podcast. Mini Disc was so good, just a shame the iPod came out to kill it off.... I remember getting an iPod and all of a sudden you could just download all the music you wanted from Kazaa and didn't need CDs anymore.

9:28 Definitely Welsh, I sat through too many GCSE Welsh lessons to not recognise that lol!

Do you have the user manual for it ?

I just ordered mine for 30€ shippung included Edit : 13€ shipping included 😎

My Teac W-790R does the continuous play

I take it you mean these are Japanese, but you bought them in the UK? Because I am pretty certain that bag they were in is from Ocado.

this guy: "if i had to buy one again which would i chose" me: "probably the one you bought three of"

I have the MZ-N707. Been using it regularly for over 20 years. Never had a fault. Always works, will not change it until it pops its clogs 👍

The battery terminals are still corroded.. Clearly..

Grazie per questo video, stavo cercando un oggetto come questo. Il volume dovrebbe potersi alzare grazie ai comandi degli auricolari. Ma non dovrebbe essere possibile mandare avanti indietro la traccia musicale, giusto?

i recently purchased a pre-owned Sony Walkman D-FJ041 model, and im looking for a Bluetooth adapter so I can use my AirPods Pro (1st Gen) with it. do you think this would this be a compatible product with it?

Something I forgot to mention 11 months ago, I get there in the end, is the N710 is a type S recorder whilst the N707 is a type R. The difference is only with recording rather than playback. The type S uses better compression techniques that improve the sound quality of the recordings. The good thing is, recordings made on a type S model sound just as good on a type R model when played back.