Sony’s Giga Juke Is 'Giga-Priced' June 6, 2007

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We are used to inhaling sharply at Sony prices at least once a month, and the arrival of the Giga Juke is no exception. That said, £500 is a lot to ask for a digital music hi-fi, even by Sony standards.

OK, so you can hook it up to a network and it has DAB radio too – I should bloody hope so – but even with its 80GB hard disk drive, £500 is a lot of green for this kind of device. Here’s what you get though:

Stores up to 40,000 music tracks
Record music from CD, vinyl, cassette, radio and MP3 players with or without PC
High Speed up to 16x audio ripping from CD
Auto Artist/Album/Track Title Labelling
“x-DJ” automatically creates themed playlists for any occasion
Transfer tracks to MP3 player, mobile phone or PSP™ up to 50x speed
4.3in LCD display
2 x 85 watt power output (RMS) speakers

And, lastly, don’t forget that big burning hole in your pocket. Is this worth £500?-Martin Lynch

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