The market these days is flooded with various portable MP3 players from many different manufactures. There is probably very few people that never heard about Apple iPod, Creative Zen, iRiver and many more. The players come in different colors, shapes, and more or less usable features and functions. Some manufacturers bet on design and marketing (Apple), others on size or price. But after all, they have one thing in common, and that is playing MP3 music. Although many can play other formats as well, still MP3 is the most common. And no matter how advanced and great your player is, it cannot do miracles if you feed it with 128kbps MP3s.
There is one almost forgotten technology developed by Sony that surpasses the MP3 format in any way. The player is not as small as the MP3 sisters, since it plays optical disks 2.7×2.2 inches, but the sound quality is excellent. One disc can hold up to 80 minutes of high quality music that beats even the highest MP3 quality (320kbps), or you can choose from two Long Play modes for twice or four times more playtime - LP2 equals to 192kbps MP3, LP4 is recommended only for voice since the compression is too high for music.
And the design is simply beautiful. Long live Sony MiniDisc!

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