Sony 20Gb Hard Drive Walkman MP3

nava

Hi I was looking at the Argos web site and they have Sony 20Gb Hard Drive Walkman MP3 Item number 512/9443 for £ 149 after calling a few shops they have it in Liffey Valley for €214. Collecting it today.

Is that a good deal for it?

Thanks

Borzoi

nava wrote:

Is that a good deal for it?

Thanks

Yep, they were €399 before Christmas. Bought mine in the UK for the equivalent of €315.

Top quality piece of kit

fletch

I would have thought that was an excellent price considering most other highstreet outlets are charging €379 (AFAIK)

Dec4

Can it directly encode to ATRAC via line-in? or do you have to use a PC?

gtsreddy

is it available in any of the city centre stores

Chalk

Dec4 wrote:

Can it directly encode to ATRAC via line-in? or do you have to use a PC?

sony things use mp3 since november afaik

nava

Hi

I tried the ring and reserve 01-2161616, the shop the retail park in Blanch has it, 669 is the store number. Also trieds Jervis, Illac and St. Stephens but didn't have any.

Or you can call any of the shops and ask them to check the computers for you, you can find the numbers in the goldenpages.ie

Hey if you can'f find 1 I can see l to you for €275

Thanks

JDxtra

Is this the Sony HD1 model? If so that would explain the price as it has been replaced by the newer Sony HD3 model (which is out a few months now).

Dec4

Chalk,
Not sure I follow - does it have a line-in or not?

Gilgamesh

Argos is only offering the HD1 for this price, it isn't the newer HD 3, you can tell on the screen.
Also, Dec4, the HD series doesn't have a line in at all, only transfer through USB.
tbh I have the HD3 and it really doesn't matter much if you use MP3 or ATRAC as the files get encrypted on the drive anyway, and can only be downloaded back from the source PC, but silly, but hey, it is the biggest Music producing company in the world behind it.

still a great price. can also be used as an external HDD

nava

Hi

I was just looking in the Argos website and they offer Free Vouchers

The offer is also here, but I do not know how much for €200 I will say about €20

Thanks

Chalk

Dec4 wrote:

Chalk,
Not sure I follow - does it have a line-in or not?

i thought you were asking about whether or not youd have to convert all your mp3s to atrac.

i dont know if it has a line in

Gilgamesh

Chalk wrote:

i dont know if it has a line in

it doesn't have one. but you can switch the headphone jack to line out

gtsreddy

does any one have got the thing for 214 euros in ireland
i think any of the stores in dublin have no stock , but they are telling the price is 214 euros
if any one knows which stores is doing these ones for 214 euros please let us know , we are thinking of buying at least 2

nava

Hi

If you try Balch Retail park they had at least 1 this morning.

Or try my other option above call any of the shops and ask them to check for you.


Thanks

Dec4

Chalk, Cheers - confusion sorted. No line-in. USB only.

MisterAnarchy

The Argos clearance sales are mega.
I bought a LYra 20Gb Jukebox for 100 euro ,75% off.
Great piece of kit,better than an Ipod.

ronano

MisterAnarchy wrote:

The Argos clearance sales are mega.
I bought a LYra 20Gb Jukebox for 100 euro ,75% off.
Great piece of kit,better than an Ipod.

They still got some?

vishal

if anyone does buy one the software crashes on conversion and transfer to atrac. to fix this delete any codec u might have installed or specifically if ffs codec pack then go to start/ my programs/ ffs/ audio filter config and go to mp3 and change mp3lib to disabled. will then work a treat.

dcarroll

anyone know where they have these in stock? If not any other bargains on 20gb+?

matwijow

Argos in Blanchardstown had a few today

Dr. Nick

Was in the new Argos in Blackpool (Cork) a few days ago, the bargains available from the old catalogue are indeed very tasty......

dcarroll

Where is everyone getting these bargains in Argos, do u just look for the old catologue

matwijow

Nope - each store has their own clearance catalogue (stuff they couldn't shift from last year) depends on what each store has left over. The one in Liffey Valley has a "catalogue" as you go in the door - it's about 20 pages of what they have left. Some of the offers are brill.

Is1ldur

Just been on to two branches, Blanch and Nutgrove, and they don't have any left. They also both said that none of the shops have any left....Ah well....

matwijow

We pre booked 2 in Blanch and bought 1 we prebooked in Liffey Valley. Wont be buying the ones in Blanch so they should be released again tomorrow morning as the reservation ran out tonight.

nava

Hi

Balch. retail park have 1 left call 01 2161616 store number 669 catalog number 512/9443

tony 2 tone

matwijow wrote:

We pre booked 2 in Blanch and bought 1 we prebooked in Liffey Valley. Wont be buying the ones in Blanch so they should be released again tomorrow morning as the reservation ran out tonight.

Cheers, picked up one on Sat morning.

lomb

is it just me or is the bass slightlyu weak on these. bought 2 so it is common to both

RicardoSmith

lomb wrote:

is it just me or is the bass slightlyu weak on these. bought 2 so it is common to both

If you are suing the supplied headpones then you might improve it with better earphones. I've read some reviews of these and some liked the sound some didn't. Same as all HD players though. They all colour the sound to some degree. Trying different earphones can make a big difference. Apologies if you've already tried this.

lomb

RicardoSmith wrote:

If you are suing the supplied headpones then you might improve it with better earphones. I've read some reviews of these and some liked the sound some didn't. Same as all HD players though. They all colour the sound to some degree. Trying different earphones can make a big difference. Apologies if you've already tried this.

will try thanks

RicardoSmith

Found this on another site

related to the HD3

"The thing that really annoyed me when i got it was the sound was really low at max volume but if you search out there you will find a fix where you go into the service menu and turn off something called Sound Pressure Regulation and this will boost the sound by about 50%"

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17371136&page=1&pp=30

lomb

yep i know about that hack, need to be very careful another guy on avforums entered the 'audio' menu instead of 'others' and changed something now he cant hear anything.
the hd3 is imho at 215stg from amazon is a miles better player than an ipod. looks lovely in black 2.
new software allows drag and drop from windows explorer apparently.

RicardoSmith

I think all the players have their pros and cons. Theres no player that has it all IMO. At least not yet. They've all got shortcomings. Neither the Sony or iPod record for example.

lomb

that is true, sony have taken a nice stab at it though, i think the hd1 was lauched to celebrate 25 years of the walkman and as such was the pinnacle. the new one has an aluminium case whereas the hd1 is mag.
the drm business is what killed it, sony have let up recently on this though but theres more to do.

oxygen_old

man am I sorry I missed that argos deal. Its like someone telling you they were selling BMW's for a € yesterday. Real pisser

lomb

the hd3 from amazon isnt bad at 215 stg/ 300 euro either. it already has the mp3 firmware update and can use drag and drop etc. look lovely in black 2 and have 45 free songs with them aswell from connect.com