Sony Neige 80 Minute Blank minidisc 10 disc Pack

I have my home sound system set up as a "Museum of Forgotten Formats." Cassette , 8-track, reel-to-reel, vinyl (not so forgotten anymore), and minidisc. I used minidisc back in the day, and still have a library of discs. It has always been an amazing format. Add and delete tracks at will. I have the Onkyo FR-X9A, which is a small form receiver/amplifier/CD/MD. It dubs a CD to MD at double speed. I can create a "best of" MD by dubbing over an entire CD, deleting songs that don't qualify as "best of," and then doing the same with the next CD. Which leads us to the product at hand. I've been using Sony minidiscs for decades, and I think I've only had one disc failure in all that time. Each disc comes with multiple labels for the case and disc. That's in addition to the label already inside the case. By the way, it took me a few seconds to figure out how to get to that label. The case is not a traditional case (see below), and does not look like it opens. But just grab the two sides and pull and it snaps apart to get to the label. These are 80-minute minidiscs. The standard was 74 minutes, but I don't think there are any compatibility issues. These work fine in the Onkyo as well as my Sony portable player. If you are OCD and want your MDs to come in the same jewel cases that the bygone MDs used, then this might disappoint. They are in hard plastic sleeves. The MD slips into the case and clicks into place, as opposed to opening a jewel case. I actually prefer these, but I thought you should be aware.

Being a niche recording format that is now considered obsolete, it is hard finding new blank Minidiscs; often the price is astronomical because they are so rare. Heck, the only reason why I have a home stereo MD recorder is because I found a clean Sony MDS-JE330 deck at Goodwill a few years back for $12.99. (Which, as a sidenote, is a fantastic entry-level unit!) Up until now, I had only used Sony 74-Minute Color Collection MDW-74 discs and a few TDK discs I received in a bulk eBay purchase some time ago. I never had a problem with them, and the audio reproduction from burned discs thru OpenMD on my MZ-N505 Minidisc Walkman was very good. I was very excited to try out the Neige line for such a great price! Let me tell you, as an amateur audiophile, the Neige line's audio reproduction is a night-and-day difference! The bass is tighter, the treble is crisper, and I tried a new MDW-74 and a new Neige 80 disc with the same songs under the exact same settings. For the comparison, I used my J330 connected to my PC with analog (RCA) input. I am extremely pleased with the performance of the Neige discs, and will most likely purchase more in the near future. The older MDW-74s are great, but if you have sensitive ears and are looking for the extra clarity, then the Neige is for you!

As blank Minidiscs get harder and harder to find, I'm glad that I was able to find them on Amazon at an affordable price. In addition, they are of really good quality.

Fastest way to get recording jobs done, MiniDisc Recorders have many features. I can track mark where one Song or Topic ends and another begins; I can do this faster than using a computer, and if I don't like where I put the track mark I can move it to where I want it. I can also move any song or topic from one location to another in seconds. If I have something I don't want I can just delete it. I can can display text like for album and also for songs or topics. I can get remove noise between songs by tack marking at the end of one song and the beginning of the next and deleting it. Now if I want dead silent space between songs I can use my Sony stereo MD Recorder to pause 3 seconds between songs while I record back on another MiniDisc with my walkman MD Recorder. I can be doing other things, no baby sitting necessary. I can record a Medley of Songs from a Record with no bands and make a MD that will start when I Music Seach exactly where that song begins. You need to get that track mark right first as the Song Titles tie to the track mark, change the track and the Song Title is gone has to be done again. Cassette Records take two records to most things and a lot more time getting things correct: almost impossible. Same for CD recorder, I can't move the track marks on CD-Rs, have to throw disc away and try again. CD-RW I was told that you have to remove everything after what needs corrected and start over from there. Sony made a few mistakes, I have computer with a MiniDisc Drive, but if you put music on the computer to write title with a keyboard it see it was digital and it won't let you make an MD completed copy; however, you can make CD's. To use the Computer for MiniDics, you have to record into the computer in slow real time with the analog jacks, and everything takes longer to do on the computer except for typing text. Using CDs, I never could make a Medley of continues Songs with track marks in the right place and no sound drop out; I could with the MiniDisc. I was told that CD-Rs have certaing spots for track marks, which is not exactly between songs; otherwise, can have some sound drop. I got this information from Cool Edit, now Audition from Adobe. I use the this software to remove noise, and i could change the tempo without changing the pitch etc. Sony made a big mistake with the MiniDisc in the US, and I heard sale were not good enough. I also notice that MiniDisc recorders were not well advertised. People won't buy, if they don't know they exist. This hurts me as I will need new recorders someday. I also heard they went over big in Japan; you could even put you MiniDisc into a JukeBox and download songs. They need to come back advertised and allow us to use the faster digital features with out copy protect blocking. Minidisc recorders also have optical inputs and outputs. I don't know anything else to use with these features.

Wish Sony would bring back this amazing technology for the third time and educate the public how amazing this technology really is. The ability you have for editing is just awesome. They really missed the boat on this one. I'm just glad I was able to bond with Mini Disc. Being able to find these Disc was not easy, but I'm so happy you have it available. I used it to record from Cassette to Mini Disc. Track manipulation, shortening dead space, track numbering, erasing tracks, combining tracks, naming tracks, splitting tracks... It all came back to me. I love it!

Gute Qualität. Lange Lieferzeit ist o.k. Artikel werde ich noch einmal bestellen, solange er noch lieferbar ist.

Very nice discs, high quality product. So happy that you can still get these. Minidisk works for me and I see no reason to use anything else. Why Sony stopped making recorders is beyond me. Especially when I saw a Sony mini-system in the supermarket this morning which had a cassette deck, can you believe. The casing of the discs is made from fully transparent plastic, so you can see the disc inside. The storage cases are from a softer plastic, that is 'frosted'. Very nice to the touch and you can still read labels through them. The supplied labels are more than sufficient. Each disc comes with a pair of small labels and a pair of large labels. The large labels will cover most of the disc inside, but you can write more details. The small labels come in a blank version and one with dotted lines. The large labels come with dotted lines in close and larger line spacing. There's also three of those rather useless tiny long labels that go on the side of the disc. Plenty for your labeling needs! The seller is a very friendly guy from Japan that imports these directly into the UK. Highly recommended!

Works great in both of my Hi-MD players, flawless performance.

Quede muy sorprendido con la rapidez de entrega y la calidad de empaque. Exactamente lo que yo estaba esperando y en menor tiempo que el calculado (casi 3 semanas de anticipación)

Muy buena marca además tiene muy buena densidad para la grabación lo que hace que suene muy bien muy contento con este sistema de MD