Sony MDS-JB940

Features: Upper middle class home MD deck. ATRAC with Type-R DSP, MDLP recording modes, and Scale Factor Edit plus variable coefficient anti-aliasing filter. A new USB based PC-Link kit, the PCLK-MN10 (MSRP: ¥15,000), was announced with this unit for audio transfer (via the deck's digital optical input) and control (editing, titling, playback, etc.) from a PC (audio input from MD to PC is [still] not supported). TOC Cloning possible.

Specs: SNR > 100dB, Dynamic range: > 98dB, THD: <.003%, 24bit delta-sigma ADC, Current pulse DAC.

Improved over MDS-JB640:

• Extra button on front panel: digital filter (no S.F. edit button, only accessible through menu system)
• Recording level dial on front panel
• Extra buttons on 5-column remote control: date recorded, date present, numeric 11-25, music scan, auto space, peak hold, filter, CD player pause, name (name, character, number), play modes (continue, shuffle, program), time.
• Coaxial input appears on all models, as does 2 optical inputs.
• Digital filter appears in display modes while stopped, playing and recording. Pitch level appears when stopped and playing.
• Clock setting, and time/date stamp for recordings.
• Bit-length switching. Used to improve the digital output quality, by changing the outgoing bit-length.
• Digital filter changes the tone of the signal going through the analog output.
• Aluminium front panel, and is also of QS design. This means that the circuitboards inside are on a slant, reducing standing waves (unwanted reverberation), and it gets a nice shiny QS sticker on it.

Content adapted from: Minidisc.org page Sony Press Release

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