Sony MDS-JE 770

General

• Brand: Sony
• Model: MDS-JE 770
• Approximate retail price:
• Color: Black, Silver
• Remote control: yes
• Years of manufacture: 2001-2002
• Dimensions: 430 mm × 95 mm × 285 mm (W × H × D)
• Weight: 3.1 Kg

Connections

• Inputs
  • analog Cinch
  • digital optical Toslink
  • digital coaxial
  • Sony system bus A1

• outputs
  • analog Cinch
  • digital optical Toslink
  • Sony system bus A1
  • headphone output

Technical data

• Data compression method: ATRAC DSP Type R / Atrac 3
• Jog Dial
• LP2 - Stereo recording (double capacity of an MD)
• LP4 - stereo recordings (four times capacity of a MD at moderate quality)

Special features

• Sony ATRAC 3 - compression: newly developed to allow more storage space on the MD, LP2 - double time recordings also possible in stereo, LP4 - quadruple time recordings on conventional MD possible with moderate stereo quality.

Playback functions:

• • normal playback 1 MD
  • playback of a section

Random playback (shuffle) Repeat MDLP-MiniDisc® Longplay allows up to four times longer recordings on a conventional MD (through ATRAC 3)

• • Mono recording/playback with time doubling (Longplay)
• Editing functions
• Synchro recording function with Sony devices
• Programming function
• Recording forward memory/memory
• Music calendar
• Timer preparation
• Smart Space function
• Scale Factor Edit (allows subsequent volume changes as well as fader effects on the MD)
• Manual digital and analog recording level control
• Digital volume control via remote control possible

Remarks

• Other models in the same series:
  • Sony MDS-JE 470

• Previous model: Sony MDS-JE 730 and Sony MDS-JE 640
• Successor model: Sony MDS-JE 780

Pictures

Test reports

• apparently no German-language Hifi-magazine tested the equipment in the one-year construction and sales time (audio, Stereoplay, stereo examined)