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228<br />
BARGAINS<br />
Slummin’<br />
By Jeff Dorgay<br />
This issue we are on a streak of<br />
MiniDisc madness, being that<br />
Sony has just discontinued<br />
the production of these little<br />
buggers. Using Sony’s ATRAC<br />
compression scheme, these<br />
tiny optical discs recorded<br />
musical data at about 300kb/<br />
second.<br />
TONE AUDIO NO.53<br />
But in the limbo land between<br />
the cassette Walkman<br />
and the coming domination<br />
of the iPod, MiniDisc was a hit<br />
with the small group of audiophiles<br />
that loved to take their<br />
music with them.<br />
The catalog of recorded<br />
music was slim, with titles now<br />
fetching over $150 – each on<br />
EBay, but blanks are plentiful<br />
and inexpensive. Sony even<br />
made a deck for your car!<br />
Sony MDS-E10<br />
$90, EBay<br />
Complete with rack handles still attached, this<br />
“Pro” deck proves clean and in excellent working<br />
order. We see mix discs on the horizon.<br />
BARGAINS<br />
March 2013 229
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