[Bob Simon]

A quick search for Digital Voice Recorder on eBay turned up models
from Sony, Olympus, Denpa, Sharp, Sanyo, Phillips, Panasonic, and
others. I know that these devices compress audio to the point that
high quality is out of the question, but maybe some of them preserve
the signal better than most.

Does anyone want to recommend a mid-priced one with USB or equivalent?

[Dirk Bruere at NeoPax]

Bob Simon wrote:
A quick search for Digital Voice Recorder on eBay turned up models
from Sony, Olympus, Denpa, Sharp, Sanyo, Phillips, Panasonic, and
others. I know that these devices compress audio to the point that
high quality is out of the question, but maybe some of them preserve
the signal better than most.

Does anyone want to recommend a mid-priced one with USB or equivalent?

Edirol R9 ?

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[harrogate3]

"Bob Simon" wrote in message
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A quick search for Digital Voice Recorder on eBay turned up models
from Sony, Olympus, Denpa, Sharp, Sanyo, Phillips, Panasonic, and
others. I know that these devices compress audio to the point that
high quality is out of the question, but maybe some of them preserve
the signal better than most.

Does anyone want to recommend a mid-priced one with USB or
equivalent?


There's quite a few inexpensive mp3 players on the market that have
voice recording capability that you can download by USB. IMSMC Maplin
do one.


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[Richard Amirault]

"Bob Simon" wrote ...
A quick search for Digital Voice Recorder on eBay turned up models
from Sony, Olympus, Denpa, Sharp, Sanyo, Phillips, Panasonic, and
others. I know that these devices compress audio to the point that
high quality is out of the question, but maybe some of them preserve
the signal better than most.

Does anyone want to recommend a mid-priced one with USB or equivalent?

"..hight quality is out of the question..." That depends on how high a
quality you want and what you intend to do with the file.

" .. recommend a mid-priced one .." To do what??? What do you want to
record? What are you going to do with the file once you have it?

I have two Olympus Digital Voice Recorders .. both with USB. I bought the
first, a 16k model, on a whim at Target because it was on-sale (and a neat
gadget) I liked it so much that I bought it's bigger brother, with 64k, in
order to get a longer record time.

Do not get one without USB. You'll have to transfer any file over in 'real
time' and it's a pain. USB is fast, easy and did I say FAST?

Quality? My Olympus units have three quality settings. The lowest is crap.
The mid setting is better, and the high quallity setting isn't bad at all
FOR WHAT THE RECORDER WAS INTENDED TO RECORD .. the human voice.

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MA, USA
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[Marc Heusser]

In article ,
Bob Simon wrote:

A quick search for Digital Voice Recorder on eBay turned up models
from Sony, Olympus, Denpa, Sharp, Sanyo, Phillips, Panasonic, and
others. I know that these devices compress audio to the point that
high quality is out of the question, but maybe some of them preserve
the signal better than most.

Does anyone want to recommend a mid-priced one with USB or equivalent?

There are others but Marantz has units that will record to mp2, mp3 or
full 16bit PCM on a flash card, and supply phantom power on XLR
microphone inputs. Whether USD 600 is still mid-priced only you can tell.
(see http://www.d-mpro.com/users/folder.asp?FolderID=3507)

HTH

Marc

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