My son is wandering the world, and I said I'd send him some blank minidiscs for his birthday, so he wouldn't have to carry too much weight.

I bought him the Chemical Brothers' new CD and Leonard Cohen's latest for when he comes back, but thought I'd record them to minidisc for him to carry with him, and include them as a surprise with the rest.

But while the Chemical Brothers sounds all right (if you like that kind of thing), Lenni sounds fuzzy.

I was using a jack from my PowerBook's sound port to the Sony MZ-R700 minidisc recorder's microphone port. And it wasn't the particular disc; I tried on a second one and it was fuzzy too.

Any thoughts?