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Sony NAS-EH35HD Giga Juke Hi-Fi system | 
 enlarge | Brand: Sony
Category: CE
Buy New: £214.33
New (5) from £214.33
Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 347
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 23.7
Dimensions (in): 18 x 15.6 x 15.4
MPN: NASE35HD.CEK
Model: NASE35HD.CEK
EAN: 4905524467857
ASIN: B0015RZCXC
Release Date: March 10, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| 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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Product Description
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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Great system, but a bit of a nuissance to get all your music on November 27, 2008
BDB3003 (London, UK)
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.
A clever and compact little beauty... November 25, 2008
Outlawambler (Birmingham)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
 Just what I needed November 15, 2008
F. Perrin (England)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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
Excellent Product! November 8, 2008
Music Lover (England)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
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!
Retire those meddlesome CDs for good! November 1, 2008
Cambridge Daz (Cambridge, UK)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
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!
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