On 12/11/2010 7:01 AM, Ty Ford wrote:
Sony MZ-M200 MiniDisc Recorder
Lilliputian Lifesaver
Ty Ford
When do my singer/songwriter, wedding and event video shooters, radio news
interviewers, concert tapers and podcaster friends ask me about inexpensive,
high-quality (as in, at least 16/44.1) recording thingees? Always, always and
then mostly....always. Itıs like the search for the Holy Grail. How much
money do they want to spend? Sorry, thatıs how LITTLE do they want to spend?
What do they want to do with the audio? How fussy, how fragile, how much does
the media cost?
For all of my assorted friends, the answer today, at this very moment,
especially when a small, inconspicuous device capable of 16-bit/44.1 is
needed, is the Sony MZ-M200 Hi-MD recorder. At just over four ounces with a 1
GB Hi-MD disc inserted and with 3.25 inch x 3.25 inch x .5 inch dimensions,
this $439.00 quarter pounder is not cheesy.
Hmmmm . . . . that doesn't compare too well with today's
$100 flash memory recorders. That review must have be 6-7
years old. When was the last time you used yours? When was
the last time you bought a pack of Minidisks? It was a
pretty good deal when it came out though. I thought about
getting one myself to replace my TEAC DA-P20 portable DAT.
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operated without a passing knowledge of computing, although
it seems that it can be operated without a passing knowledge
of audio." - John Watkinson
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