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Electronics : Sony D-NE511 Silver ATRAC/MP3 CD Walkman
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Rating: 
- ATRAC3plus and MP3 good but...
While it is great to be able to store 30 CDs worth of music on a single disc, the software leaves something to be desired. The sound is acceptable, given the amount of compression (for anything other than orchestral music). The Simple Burner software is a bit of a pain: the discs have to be burnt at a single go, so prepare to sit there for ages feeding new disks into your computer. If the application closes for any reason, you will lose the whole disk image, and have to start again, so ensure that you don't have memory-heavy applications open at the same time as you are creating your ATRAC compilations. Another weak point is that there is no setting to 'normalize' the tracks from different sources - so the tracks on your compilations will vary widely in volume. This is most obvious when you use the shuffle setting - a great feature, when one has over 400 tracks on a single disk.
The software works... it's just more of a pain than it needs to be. I'd give this cheap but useful player five stars if they could get that aspect sorted out. It is wonderful to be able to have so much music at one's fingertips on a long journey.
Rating: - It's a smasher!!
I've just received my Sony D-NE511 Silver Atrac/MP3 CD which I bought from Amazon at £61.99. I was very happy with the price, nearly 20 pounds cheaper than Argos.
I've always wanted a Sony Discman but they always seemed a bit expensive to me and I've made do with cheaper makes, but when I saw what this little baby professed to do I was immediately tempted.
TESTING.
The first thing I tried (after throwing away the awful headphones supplied) was playing an MP3 Cd of my Springsteen albums which I made a while back. It was recorded at 128kbs. It sounded great. Better even than it did on my PC, which was a big relief. Mp3s at higher bitrates sounded even better. It reads the files into its memory by spinning up the disc, then the disc stops while the music plays. This saves battery life apparently, and I guess it stops background noise too. It recognises ID3 and folders. Which was nice.
Next CD I tried was a normal audio CD, David Gray's white ladder. It sounded nice and clear, and not harsh on the ear as it has done on my cheaper player.
The next step was to try out the bundled software. This CD player features Sony's ATRAC3 Plus format so they give you software to make CDs in that format on your PC. I loaded the software up with no problems and making use of the program is a complete no brainer. You simply put the CD you want to copy in the CD draw, check the tracks you want to copy and press the add button. (first select the compression rate. They recommend 64kbs ATRAC3 Plus) This adds the files to your hard disk for burning. CDDB names everything for you if you are online. You repeat the process as many times as you like until you fill up the size of memory your blank CDR/or RW will allow. You then press burn and the software controls your CDR/RW drive to burn your ATRAC CD.
I managed to get every single album Bruce Sringsteen has ever made onto one CD. About 20 albums. There is still room for a few odd B Sides etc, you can add more tracks retrospectively I believe.
The only downsides to this ATRAC business is that encoding does take quite a long time. I reckon on about 10-15 mins for a 70 minute CD. You can then only play these encoded CDs on your ATRAC Walkman, you cannot play them on a PC like MP3 files. I suggest audiophiles use a higher bitrate than 64kbs, you'll get less tracks on, but at 64 the quality was like an MP3 at 96kbs to my ears. You have to weigh up what you want, great sound, or lots of it, similar to MP3 encoding.
Another thing that annoyed me was that you could not save a burning session, you have to do each burn as soon as you've copied all the files to the PC. Once you close the program the files are gone. So pray you don't have a powercut or crash while you are doing a big session. But you can add multiple sessions to a disc I believe. I think I'll stick to MP3's really, you can play them in a lot more places.
Other points.
The unit is lovely to look at, but rather lightweight in construction, I wouldn't want to drop it. The display, which is very useful when playing ATRAC or MP3 files because it features 2 lines of ID3 info, is a bit small. You may need your magnifying glass granny. Battery life seems to be excellent. The volume is a little lower than I've been used to with Walkmans, but this is probably no bad thing for our aural health. If it wasn't for the niggles with the ATRAC format and the appalling headphones I'd give it a 5 star rating, especially at the price.
Rating:
- Atrac - Not On Track
With all the bells and whistles and more you would expect from Sony the Atrac D-NE511, the facilities are certainly impressive.Artist/Album and track title are all displayed on the neat lcd display and searching a cd with up to 200 track on becomes easy. The only thing, and boy is this an important one, that lets this machine down is the volume, or to be precise the distinct lack of it. Even at maximum output and using a quality set of headphones the volume didn't even create anything near a "wow" factor - it was comparible to a number three or four out of ten on a decent output player. I can only assume that this has something to do with the claim of being able to play back for 80 hours - at the expense of limiting the output to minimal. If you're looking for a machine that will rock your socks off then look elsewhere...the only socks the D-E511 will rock are your Granma's bed socks.
Rating: - Very good product and easy to use.
Well, finaly I found something that I can trust! Sony MP3 Cd player is very easy to use and gives you many options.
Easy access to the folders, the jog dial is very fast and handy so that you can see wich songs are caming next, It's fairly fast reading mp3 and atrac
The Atrac software included is very easy to use and install, but I still thinking that mp3 are more easy to use and to get.
Beleive or not the walkman cames with a rechargeble option, so you only have to buy the baterry.
Very good sound quality and fun. I recommend to anyone.
Rating:
- Outstanding Value
This cd player is fantastic! I have been looking for a portable music player that would allow me high storage in order to take asmuch music on y travels as possible. This cd player was the cheap option when compared to some of my friends MP3 players, but it's so much better!
You can selet various rates to record ATRAC cd's. After experimenting I have found that the ATRAC3plus 64 kbps is the best. You can record massive 24 hours of music on a single cd at this level and the sound quality is indistinguishable from the original recording.
The burner software is very easy to install and use. It even links up to an internet database that recognises the cd that you are going to record, then automatially transfers the track names and data to your copy disk, meaning that the cd player will display the track data in the same way as a minidisk player. it took me less than two hours to burn 20 albums onto a disk.
The player itself is light and has all the functions that you need. It's battery life is fantastic, offering around 80 hours playback when playin an ATRAC cd or 50 hours when using a standard cd. Brilliant!
- ATRAC3plus and MP3 good but...While it is great to be able to store 30 CDs worth of music on a single disc, the software leaves something to be desired. The sound is acceptable, given the amount of compression (for anything other than orchestral music). The Simple Burner software is a bit of a pain: the discs have to be burnt at a single go, so prepare to sit there for ages feeding new disks into your computer. If the application closes for any reason, you will lose the whole disk image, and have to start again, so ensure that you don't have memory-heavy applications open at the same time as you are creating your ATRAC compilations. Another weak point is that there is no setting to 'normalize' the tracks from different sources - so the tracks on your compilations will vary widely in volume. This is most obvious when you use the shuffle setting - a great feature, when one has over 400 tracks on a single disk.
The software works... it's just more of a pain than it needs to be. I'd give this cheap but useful player five stars if they could get that aspect sorted out. It is wonderful to be able to have so much music at one's fingertips on a long journey.
Rating:
- It's a smasher!!I've just received my Sony D-NE511 Silver Atrac/MP3 CD which I bought from Amazon at £61.99. I was very happy with the price, nearly 20 pounds cheaper than Argos.
I've always wanted a Sony Discman but they always seemed a bit expensive to me and I've made do with cheaper makes, but when I saw what this little baby professed to do I was immediately tempted.
TESTING.
The first thing I tried (after throwing away the awful headphones supplied) was playing an MP3 Cd of my Springsteen albums which I made a while back. It was recorded at 128kbs. It sounded great. Better even than it did on my PC, which was a big relief. Mp3s at higher bitrates sounded even better. It reads the files into its memory by spinning up the disc, then the disc stops while the music plays. This saves battery life apparently, and I guess it stops background noise too. It recognises ID3 and folders. Which was nice.
Next CD I tried was a normal audio CD, David Gray's white ladder. It sounded nice and clear, and not harsh on the ear as it has done on my cheaper player.
The next step was to try out the bundled software. This CD player features Sony's ATRAC3 Plus format so they give you software to make CDs in that format on your PC. I loaded the software up with no problems and making use of the program is a complete no brainer. You simply put the CD you want to copy in the CD draw, check the tracks you want to copy and press the add button. (first select the compression rate. They recommend 64kbs ATRAC3 Plus) This adds the files to your hard disk for burning. CDDB names everything for you if you are online. You repeat the process as many times as you like until you fill up the size of memory your blank CDR/or RW will allow. You then press burn and the software controls your CDR/RW drive to burn your ATRAC CD.
I managed to get every single album Bruce Sringsteen has ever made onto one CD. About 20 albums. There is still room for a few odd B Sides etc, you can add more tracks retrospectively I believe.
The only downsides to this ATRAC business is that encoding does take quite a long time. I reckon on about 10-15 mins for a 70 minute CD. You can then only play these encoded CDs on your ATRAC Walkman, you cannot play them on a PC like MP3 files. I suggest audiophiles use a higher bitrate than 64kbs, you'll get less tracks on, but at 64 the quality was like an MP3 at 96kbs to my ears. You have to weigh up what you want, great sound, or lots of it, similar to MP3 encoding.
Another thing that annoyed me was that you could not save a burning session, you have to do each burn as soon as you've copied all the files to the PC. Once you close the program the files are gone. So pray you don't have a powercut or crash while you are doing a big session. But you can add multiple sessions to a disc I believe. I think I'll stick to MP3's really, you can play them in a lot more places.
Other points.
The unit is lovely to look at, but rather lightweight in construction, I wouldn't want to drop it. The display, which is very useful when playing ATRAC or MP3 files because it features 2 lines of ID3 info, is a bit small. You may need your magnifying glass granny. Battery life seems to be excellent. The volume is a little lower than I've been used to with Walkmans, but this is probably no bad thing for our aural health. If it wasn't for the niggles with the ATRAC format and the appalling headphones I'd give it a 5 star rating, especially at the price.
Rating:
- Atrac - Not On TrackWith all the bells and whistles and more you would expect from Sony the Atrac D-NE511, the facilities are certainly impressive.Artist/Album and track title are all displayed on the neat lcd display and searching a cd with up to 200 track on becomes easy. The only thing, and boy is this an important one, that lets this machine down is the volume, or to be precise the distinct lack of it. Even at maximum output and using a quality set of headphones the volume didn't even create anything near a "wow" factor - it was comparible to a number three or four out of ten on a decent output player. I can only assume that this has something to do with the claim of being able to play back for 80 hours - at the expense of limiting the output to minimal. If you're looking for a machine that will rock your socks off then look elsewhere...the only socks the D-E511 will rock are your Granma's bed socks.
Rating:
- Very good product and easy to use.Well, finaly I found something that I can trust! Sony MP3 Cd player is very easy to use and gives you many options.
Easy access to the folders, the jog dial is very fast and handy so that you can see wich songs are caming next, It's fairly fast reading mp3 and atrac
The Atrac software included is very easy to use and install, but I still thinking that mp3 are more easy to use and to get.
Beleive or not the walkman cames with a rechargeble option, so you only have to buy the baterry.
Very good sound quality and fun. I recommend to anyone.
Rating:
- Outstanding ValueThis cd player is fantastic! I have been looking for a portable music player that would allow me high storage in order to take asmuch music on y travels as possible. This cd player was the cheap option when compared to some of my friends MP3 players, but it's so much better!
You can selet various rates to record ATRAC cd's. After experimenting I have found that the ATRAC3plus 64 kbps is the best. You can record massive 24 hours of music on a single cd at this level and the sound quality is indistinguishable from the original recording.
The burner software is very easy to install and use. It even links up to an internet database that recognises the cd that you are going to record, then automatially transfers the track names and data to your copy disk, meaning that the cd player will display the track data in the same way as a minidisk player. it took me less than two hours to burn 20 albums onto a disk.
The player itself is light and has all the functions that you need. It's battery life is fantastic, offering around 80 hours playback when playin an ATRAC cd or 50 hours when using a standard cd. Brilliant!