[access-uk] Re: Olympus DS-50 Voice Recorder / MP3 player
- From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:20:35 -0000
Hi Andy,
I am certainly interested in the Zoom recorder. There is a review on Blind
Cool Tech, but I can't download it, I get page not found.
As to the preamp noise, I also agree with your friend that the Edirol's
preamps are noisy, but you can solve this to quite a degree with external
mics that are hotter or louder, which means you have to turn down the volume
of the Edirol, and thus lose the hiss. However, because I don't own one, I
have never tested the noise floor on the Olympus, so I can't comment there.
Where your friend and I part company is that I don't think that 128K is good
quality by any standards. It is OK for speech, but for anything that
requires fidelity, it is not enough in my view.
All the best
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Andy Logue
Sent: 18 February 2007 23:47
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Olympus DS-50 Voice Recorder / MP3 player
Hi Steve.
Since your message I have had a word with one of the best informed minds on
digital recording that I knowand he has settled the argument as far as I am
concerned. I was wrong of course in my assertion that the Olympus was a
better device than the Ederal, but his comments are worth listening to.
He states,...
were I having a discussion with a real audiophile about which would give me
the best quality sound, I would have to say that the Edirol would be the
choice. Of course, I didn't buy one and I did buy an Olympus.
Reason, the noise of the mike pre-amps in the Edirol are way too noisy for
my taste. That alone was the killer for me. I have a Zoom which is not
very accessible to people who are blind but makes a very nice, quiet high
fidelity recording even on 128 KBPS MP3, and this MP3 recording is much
better than what the Edirol will give you in MP3. the Zoom will also record
in 44.1 and 48 sampling rate and in 16 and 24 bit. I purchased an Olympus
for note taking and for interviews that I will be transcribing to paper and
electronic format and not as a recorder I will use for podcasts, etc. Other
people certainly will use the Olympus for that and some will have success.
Others who don't happen to have the mikes that work well with the Olympus
will get distortion and a lot of limiter pounding.
Bottom line, in my opinion, technically, he may be right, but he doesn't
have to be such a jerk about it. So, be glad you have something you like,
make recordings you like, and enjoy listening to them and sharing them with
others and let the other people who think they have to badger people go
right ahead. As long as you like what you have, that's what counts.
Just my 2 cents worth.
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