MiniDisc. Regaining Popularity?

[walpurgis]

I've noticed that second hand prices for MiniDisc players and recorders and just discs seem to be on the up. This includes personal units and decks. I wonder why?

It is a format I actually like a lot. I have several personal units amd a good Pioneer deck. Not that I ever use them these days.

The recording quality with a good deck is amazingly good. Recordings I've made on my deck from my main CD setup sound virtually indistinguishable from the original, in other words, outstandingly good.

Are we seeing a revival? Could be fun!

[Martyn Miles]

As far as I’m concerned minidisc never went away. I have a Tascam prof. unit and its quality is superb.
I bought it to replace an old cassette deck, mainly to record from a tuner.
I bought a pre-recorded Simon & Garfunkel MD on eBay and compared it to the S & G CD I have.
To be honest, I couldn’t tell the difference...

[walpurgis]

Yup. My Pioneer MJ-D707 deck makes remarkable recordings. Even the little Sharp personal recorder/players I have are really very good. Makes you feel sorry for people listening to MP3 players.

[Batty]

I had a Denon DMD1000 but the laser died and was not cost effective to replace, but I still have a Philips portable unit hiding in a box somewhere.

[sq225917]

always used them in the car still Sony stopped makin them. The last version of ATRAC was always way better than mp3s best efforts.

[macspur]

I've never stopped using the trusty little format, currently got a Sony MDS JB920 QS and looking to buy another as back up.
Mac

[simon g]

The ATRAC system was/is amazingly good.

The reason these decks are going up in price is simple supply and demand. There is still a healthy demand for them, buy supply is becoming limited due to products failing with age and not being repairable.

I used to have an MD deck in my car; far superior as an in car proposition than CDs. I still have a couple of hundred mini discs at home; stupidly sold a really good deck a few years back. I'll buy another when the right one comes up.

[struth]

i stopped a while ago but still have plenty discs and a couple of sony recording walkmans; one a net type and another just a player in bronze colour. they are as said above very good for recordable media.
the net one is handy for cleaning discs that have been locked electronically.