Electronics : Sony NAS-EH35HD Giga Juke Hi-Fi system

Rating: - Neat
I found this piece of kit to be very good overall.
I agree with the niggles that other reviewers mention,it is a little
slow to load your music on to the hard drive,
especially if you have a lot of CDs,the fastest method is memory stick from your computer but, of
course you would have to have your music on your computer already.
I just did a few CDs a day and have managed to get most of them on ok.
As previously mentioned ,there is no space indicator on the hard drive
but its quite a decent size and won't come into it for many people.

The niggles are small and only in the initial loading to the hard drive.

The DAB and FM radio works fine even with the supplied slim wire antennas
If I had a chance to change it, I wouldn't as it's a decent unit.

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Rating: - Great system, but a bit of a nuissance to get all your music on
Sony NAS-EH35HD Giga Juke Hi-Fi system
Pros:

Great sound. I'm sure hifi-snobs will beg to differ, but if you're willing to listen to MP3s anyway than I guess you won't fall into that category.

Great looks - although finger prints show up easily on the shiny finish.

The system comes with a free TDM-IP10 Digital Media Port, to hook up your iPod. I've sold mine off on Amazon marketplace, which knocked 25 quid off the purchase price. (I've also noticed that sneaky Amazon has raised the price now ahead of the VAT cut).


Cons:

Yes it takes ages to upload songs onto the HDD. It is also preferable to do this with a usb stick rather than from the CD as this means it will be done in the bitrate that you've saved the file. Recording from CD the bitrate is set at 128kb, which in my opinion is a too low quality.

Getting the names right. Once it's on the HDD it does not allow you to change a band's name to one that already exists on the HDD. I also have to autotag all my MP3 tracks to make sure they appear right on the HDD.

There's no function that shows you how much space is left on the HDD.

The time it takes to start up the system (reading the HDD) takes longer the more music you upload.

You can change the display view, but everytime you switch it on it will revert back to the default display.

Although it sounds like there's a lot of cons, once you've uploaded most of your music these gripes will disappear. I decided to buy this system as I don't listen to my iPod anymore and was sick of continuously hooking it up to an inferior sounding speaker dock or listening on laptop speakers.

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Rating: - A clever and compact little beauty...
This is a smart bit of kit. It feels robust as you'd expect from a Sony, and the downloading to the HDD is simple. Ive got a sony walkman 16GB and it took about 4 hours to dump the lot onto the HDD - I just left it to get on with it. The sound is crisp, although I havent managed to give it a good blast as my small kids dont like it (oh the irony!). The only issue I have is that it doesnt have an on/off button - only a standby button, which isnt particularly enviro friendly and even when on standby it makes a quiet humming/buzzing sound, a bit like a Sky+ box or any hard drive - so i turn it off at the plug...!! All round great product though and looks fab.

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Rating: - Just what I needed
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

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Rating: - Excellent Product!
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!