I bought a (non-portable) minidisc player around the time 1995. I found it was the most advanced CE device for its time, certainly for its price, 300 euros or s

I bought a (non-portable) minidisc player around the time 1995. I found it was the most advanced CE device for its time, certainly for its price, 300 euros or so. It had a very user friendly and capable UI, for example, with a couple of rotations and clicks of the dial you could stitch together recorded songs. The matrix display was bright and well legible. You could fit around 20 songs on a very small optical disc. It was quite advanced, it encoded and recorded audio in decent quality real time. It had an optical SP/DIF output. After some years the recording feature did not work anymore, it now makes sense why, after reading the article. It was a truely amazing and handy audio recorder/player. If it was still functional, I would still have used it for another 20 years or so. Edit: found a 1998 review (1) about an MD very similar to mine. (1)https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/sony-mds-je520?amp https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/sony-mds-je520?amp