Features: Sony's 10th anniversary Minidisc player. Unit achieves new world firsts in weight and size.

• World's thinnest (10mm) and lightest (55g w/batt) MD player (as of 2 Sep 2002).
• New optical pickup and motor (30% thinner) and miniaturized main IC (33% smaller) [compared with MZ-E909].
• Charge stand has 3 color LED indicating charge or remaining battery.
• New 3mm headphone jack (requires adapter for normal headphones!).
• Digital Amp
• "High grade" headphones (earbuds)

  Common to MZ-N10 and MZ-E10:

• Built-in 3mm Lithium Ion cell.
• Further thinning of the magnesium case.
• Backlit remote has 2-line display for Roman alphabet titles, 1-line for Kanji titles.
• "Virtual Headphone Technology Acoustic Engine" uses DSP to provide "Studio, Club, Live, or Arena" effects.
• Equalizer allows 7 steps of adjustment (-10dB to +10dB) in 6 frequency bands. Equalizer settings are established with one of four fixed presets ("Heavy, Pops, Jazz, Unique") or one of 2 custom (i.e. user defined) settings. Equalizer and "Virtual Headphone" cannot be used together.
• "Bookmark Track" function can remember up to 20 "favorite tracks" from an MD, and will play those tracks only. (Remembered tracks are forgotten when player is opened).
• "Digital Pitch Control" Adjustable playback speed from -50% to +100% (factor of 0.5x to 2.0x) in 13 steps without change of pitch.
• "New" Play mode (See Sony portables glossary).

Links:

• Sony's Japanese press release (mech. translations: Babelfish (courtesy Peter Ravn), Translingo).
• Sony Minidisc 10th anniversary page (mech. translation).
• AV-Land (UK) coverage (good photo).
• Minidisc T-Station coverage.
• Spanish coverage at Quesabesde.
• AV Watch page (mech. trans has coverage of the MZ-N10/E10 and LAM-10 units.
• PocketFad (Shenzhen China) has further photos of the unit.
• Japan-Direct page for the unit.
• Minidisco page for the unit.

Specs: Headphone amp: 5mW+5mW into 16 ohms. 20-20kHz +/-3dB

Included Accessories: (Japanese edition) Backlit remote, charging stand, AC adapter (for use with charging stand), carrying pouch, headphone adapter.

Reviews:

User Manual: MZ-E10

Service Manual: MZ-E10