Sony NAS-EH35HD Giga Juke Hi-Fi system

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Binding: Electronics Brand: Sony EAN: 4905524467857 Feature: 60W RMS output Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony Model: NASE35HD.CEK Publisher: Sony Release Date: 2008-03-10 Studio: Sony
Features 60W RMS output 80Gb Hard Disc Drive to store up to 15000 songs iPod dock included DAB/FM/AM tuner with RDS 30 station presets
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Editorial Reviews: Bring all your digital music together in one place with Sony's new 80GB Gigajuke player. Rip music directly from just about any audio source and enjoy a one-stop library of up to 15,000 songs
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Just what I needed Comment: I bought my system from Dixons on line because, at that time, they had the best price. The price at Amazon has come down now so, with free delivery, Amazon is your best place to buy. My old CD player had started to 'slip' so I expected to get a new CD player with a 3 CD changer and DAB radio, with a USB port for playing MP3s. Easy - so I thought. What a surprise to discover that such a system no longer existed. I could have bought all of the above without the 3 CD changer, but that wasn't what I wanted. So, in my initial search, I ended up at the Sony shop at Merry Hill and discovered that the trend nowadays is to have a hard drive in your music system. What a great idea - and what a huge price! Then I discovered the Sony NAS-EH35HD Giga Juke Hi-Fi system in Currys for £300 with a free DAB radio that I didn't need. It looked perfect for my requirements, so I rushed home to find it on Pricerunner and get the best possible price. It's brilliant! It took me a couple of weeks to get my CD collection on to the hard drive - in between going to work and doing the chores (plus my hectic social life of course!) Some of my CDs weren't recognised by grace notes (though most were - I listen mainly to Christian worship music). Anyway, those that weren't I put on to an MP3 player via the computer and got them on to the system. I think this is a brilliant product, fantastic sound. It takes a while to set up but then it does everything it says on the box! (Oh, I haven't tried the IPOD dock as I don't have an IPOD - but my MP3 works great with it.) Sony NAS-EH35HD Giga Juke Hi-Fi system Customer Rating: Summary: Excellent Product! Comment: I bought my Sony NAS-E35HD from Currys because at the time Amazon had none left..I paid £299 but got a free Sony DAB radio..(not in stock..so waiting for a phone call to collect) I must say I'm very happy with the Sony ..It looks great...has a nice glossy black finish..casing feels thick and not flimsy.. The display is big..very easy to read.. Sounds very good via the speakers..very very good for a 'micro system!.although listening on headphones it isn't quite as good as the Ipod or Sony NWZ-A829 walkman (which is excellent and better than the Ipod ) the one gripe I have is that when copying onto the hard drive via CD or radio it is recorded in only MP3 128 bit rate quality..I would have liked to have been able to record in some form of lossless format like Apple Lossless or Windows Media Lossless or even PCM from CD When it comes to copying music from a Sony MP3 player via the USB port the manual is a little vague..it says that the music is copied using the same format and bit rate as used in the MP3 player ..I hope this means that if you record onto the MP3 player using Windows Media Lossless then it will be recorded onto the hard drive in the same high quality Apart from that slight niggle I think this is great and well worth the asking price! Customer Rating: Summary: Retire those meddlesome CDs for good! Comment: Tired of all those meddlesome CDs littering shelves in your living room? If so then this is the one for you. The Sony NAS-E35HD is certainly a micro system for its time as it can rip CDs to its generous 80GB hard drive or alternatively directly from a USB memory stick via the USB port on the front of the unit. What impressed me most was how good the preloaded Gracenote database is, every CD I own was recognised by the system so after importing I didn't have to fill in those ID3 tags myself - totally hassle free! For much newer albums it will just show up as "unknown", in that case you only need to stick in a USB memory stick and you can export the CD metadata along with a .exe file which when run from a PC creates a import file to feed back to the unit to reconcile the names. Not really an issue for me as I highly doubt I will be buying many CDs in the future. The unit is nice and compact and sits neatly on top of an Ikea bookshelf which I have. It is a square shape measuring 285mm by 285mm. It is 143mm tall. The stylish black glossy finish with silver strip would compliment any home. The speakers are small but pack a punch. There is a 3 line display which shows information with neon blue dot matrix characters which scroll when needed. The reception on the DAB radio is excellent. I was worried that I might have to go out and buy a freestanding aerial but using the bundled cable I got a perfect reception on all the stations the Pure unit in the kitchen picks up. I suppose it helps living in Cambridge where the DAB signal seems to be quite strong. Of course you can record DAB programs to the HDD and even set up timers for your favourite shows. The only downsides are that importing music from CD or USB takes ages. Maybe 10-15 minutes per CD. At the end of the day you don't have to watch it do the ripping so it is hardly a huge problem. For USB importing I would recommend doing a large import before you go to bed and let it run overnight! Another slight niggle is when an artist name is spelt slightly different, you end up with two separate artists in the database. Even "Kings Of Leon" and "Kings of Leon" are considered different due to the capitalisation. While you can change artist names with the remote you can't change to an artist that already exists and there is no merge function! All you can do is change on your PC and reimport from scratch! The NAS-E35HD also comes with a separate iPod dock which connects via a wire to the back of the unit. It supports all the iPods since third gen, I haven't tested it myself but it is a nice thing to have. To me the strength of this unit is having all the music on the unit's HDD so you don't need to mess around with fiddling controls on an external device. The remote does such a good job of browsing the artist list. Navigation options are quite limited, everything is organised firstly into Artist name, then Album folders. It's a logical system which everyone should be used to by now, but I can't help feeling it is a shame that I can't also browse by genre or set up some kind of playlist. I must say it isn't really the end of the world for me, I like listening to whole albums or playing the whole HDD on random. It might bother you though. I am by no means an audiophile, hence opting for a system which is primarily driven as the MP3 generation! To my ears at least the sound quality on offer is great for a micro system, it is perfect for a living room. There aren't lots of silly options to tweak settings, you can only change the bass and treble settings. Also there is a function called DSGX (Dynamic Sound Generator X-tra) which I recommend you enable, it does improve the sound output. For the asking price I think this unit is a bit of a bargain as you don't have to invest in an iPod. It certainly beats having hundreds of CDs cluttering up the place. The Sony NAS-E35HD gets two thumbs up from me! Customer Rating: Summary: A great piece of Sony kit, once you get over a few snags! Comment: I'm a Sony boy, so when I decided that I wanted a HDD music system, this was the obvious choice. I was looking for a decent HDD capacity, obviously a good sound, a DAB radio and a system that looks well in the living room. This piece of kit delivers on all four of those, so it does the job, but its not all plain sailing. I've not explored the full features of this system yet so this is not a full review, but there's certainly a few things I think people need to consider before purchasing one. Firstly, its quite expensive for what it is, although the price on Amazon at the time of writing this is £30 less than I paid and much more reasonable. You can get a hell of a lot of system for nigh on £300 these days, so its a major consideration. I went for the NAS-EH35HD mainly because of the Hard Drive as I buy my music online these days and wanted a system that could handle the music without burning CDs. If you don't need a HDD, it goes without saying, you can get much more for your money elsewhere. I love the way I can plug in my Sony MP3 player via the USB connection (there's one front and back) and play tracks directly from the player through the system, all controlled by the remote. Very nifty. I believe this will also be the case for Ipod. You get an Ipod cradle and its built to work with one seamlessly. The sound is fantastic, as I expected. The main gripe I have with the system is the importing of music. If like me you store most of your music on your PC these days, you'd have thought putting music onto the NAS-EH35HD would be a simple case of connecting your PC to the system and copying the files. Nope. What you have to do, is first dump the music to be copied onto an MP3 player and then connect that to the system. You then essentially record the music to the HDD, although its faster than real time record. Its takes about 3 hours to copy 3.5 gigs worth of tunes. Although this isn't a showstopper, its annoying, especially when your MP3 player has a 4gb memory and you need to copy 20gig of music! The second (and last) issue I had was the way it actually stored the MP3s. I guess MP3 players must have some software which keeps albums together and ensures that album tracks are stored and played in the order intended by the artist, but I don't think the system recogised whatever filing method used by the PC. So the album tracks were stored alphabetically rather than track number, and also tracks from compilation albums are stored as single tracks (as the artist is always different). There are ways to overcome this however (I simply numbered the tracks of albums, and changed the artists on compilations to "various", but novices might have a few teething probs). Finally, if you're looking to connect your TV to your system, I dont think this one is for you. Sony's next level up "Gigajuke" has HDMI connectivity so go for that one. Overall, once the tracks are copied, and in the right way, this is a belting piece of kit and will be even better when the price comes down. More Reviews