Sony D-NE718CK ATRAC3/MP3/CD Walkman with Car Kit

by Sony

Product Details

Product Manual [873kb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000099GL7
• Item model number: DNE718CK
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Sony D-NE718 .. Sony presents the D-NE718CK ATRAC3™/MP3 CD Walkman® Portable Compact Disc Player. Supplied with Car Kit Accessories including a Car Remote Control, this Slim Bodied player features a Full Circle, Clear Lid Design which adds to its high tech image. Listen in style and reap the benefits of ATRAC3plus™, ATRAC3 and MP3 Format Playback, and the supplied SonicStage™ Simple Burner Software. You can create your own music compilations and get up to 490** songs on 1 CD-R/RW disc @ 48kbps. Additional features include Jog Dial® Control, a Bookmark Playback Function, a 3 Line Dot Matrix Display, CD Text and ID3 Tagging Capability, and Over 95 Hours of Continuous, Playback with 2 'AA' Batteries (Not Included) for ATRAC3Plus™ Playback, and 55 Hours for CD Audio Playback. The D-NE718CK will rock your next road trip!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars audio fanatic says: this is the best mp3/cd player out there, May 3, 2004

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dan (canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sony D-NE718CK ATRAC3/MP3/CD Walkman with Car Kit (Electronics)

this is my first time reviewing anything online, and the reason i feel compelled to do so is because i think that this discman is an absolute must for anyone out shopping for an mp3/cd player (Especially one for the car). i have spent quite a bit of time researching for the best cd player out there, have owned quite a few, and without a doubt this is the best one. where to start... the battery life is fantastic at 95 hours for two AA's. it's wonderfully slim and sexy, stylish and elegant in all the ways good electronics are. sound quality is great... some other discman's (panasonic), seem to sacrifice sound quality or the volume tops off at a level you cannot hear over the subway roar (not this one, this will break your ears at full volume...break them). it features fantastic antiskip... the thing will put the current song in memory after 10 seconds and stop it from skipping, making skipping virtually impossible (ie: you can hurl it at a homeless person and it will not miss a beat). the ease of switching between songs in mp3 or atrac form is unsurpassed. the id tagging here is perfect, but the big news, and the thing that makes me absolutely enthralled with this device is the jog dial. not to exaggerate, but the jog dial is the greatest invention since the typewriter... and more useful than water or air. it allows you to easily roll your way through hundreds of songs or folders in seconds. it is so simple that i am shocked other companies havent thought of this sooner. in many other players you have to tap a button a hundred times to get to the song you like... doesnt that suck? no one likes tapping!! here you roll, and its much faster and easier and looks cool as hell. what else to say? there are no problems with this discman...its perfect... it looks great, the buttons all make perfect sense in their placement, it works better than any discman i have ever seen or read about.... and if youre looking for the best you cannot do any better (Serisouly, even those more expensive ones out there arent more functional.... sure they look like miniature ufo's...but they dont have no jogdial).
enjoy it.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars fine, superlative Walkman--WOWZER !!!, June 2, 2008

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Matthew G. Sherwin (last seen screaming at Amazon customer service) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony D-NE718CK ATRAC3/MP3/CD Walkman with Car Kit (Electronics)

This Walkman by Sony offers serious music lovers the opportunity to listen to MP3 files stored on a CD, CD-R, CD-RW, a regular CD (of course); and even a newer technology called "ATRAC3/ATRAC3plus." The remote and the car accessories come in handy if you don't want to carry the actual player in your hands as you walk about town or drive along the highway--great! Moreover, to do all this it only uses two AA batteries at a time and you get lots of play time out of that single battery.

At first glance the controls on the Walkman itself appear intimidating but after about ten minutes tops you learn all the important and most commonly used functions. The controls also make it easy to adjust the levels of bass and change equalizer settings. Other features, such as adding bookmarks on a CD and learning how to use this in a car, require a bit more concentration and time to learn. However, the instruction manual is fairly clear and if you have questions you can always contact Sony customer support by phone or Internet.

One special feature that is very much worth noting: the advantage of making an "ATRAC3plus or an ATRAC3" CD is that you can fit much, much more music onto an "ATRAC" CD than you ever could otherwise when making your own CDs. Indeed, the owner's manual for this Walkman states that you can fit 999 music files on a single "ATRAC" style CD. Excellent!

However, I noticed two relatively minor disappointments. First, Sony advertises this Walkman as being for the music enthusiast--and they are right. This means that the average layperson like me will have to spend a couple of hours learning how to use ALL the functions of this Walkman. The capabilities of this little machine impress me greatly; but there will be a small--but worthwhile--learning curve for persons like myself. I did not anticipate that. In addition, some of the control buttons are rather small so you need to be careful of how you touch them with your fingers.

Overall, music enthusiasts will be thrilled with this Walkman. The abundant features amaze me and I believe you will be impressed, too. The quality of the sound is excellent. The shockproof "skip-free G protection" impress me, too. I highly recommend this portable CD player for music lovers everywhere. In addition, if you have the time to learn how to use this machine to its greatest potential, any layperson like me will also come to cherish this Walkman.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This IS an MP3 player..., August 13, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Sony D-NE718CK ATRAC3/MP3/CD Walkman with Car Kit (Electronics)

Im not sure what the other reviewer of this product is talking about. The D-NE718CK IS most definitely an MP3 player. Without using any of the included software, i popped in a cd of my mp3s and started listening to them 2 seconds after opening the player.