RE: Dictaphone recomendations
- From: "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <voicerec-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 10:48:01 +0100
Hi Michael,
Can you also explain about the DM1 from Olympus? What are the good/bad
points on this recorder?
Andrew.=20
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> To: Andrew Hodgson
> Subject: Re: Dictaphone recomendations
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> Hi Andrew,
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> What do you want to do?
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> If you want to record short notes, the Sony ICD-B25, ICD-BP100 or
> ICD-BP150 are the best units IMHO. They're no longer manufactured, but
> one can get them relatively easy via Ebay. You can append to=20
> notes with
> these recorders, which isn't possible with the Olympus note=20
> takers. The
> B25 and the BP150 have 16 mb of built-in memory, one can=20
> record around 2
> hours of good quality messages with them. The ICD-BP100 has only eight
> megs of memory.
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> Most of the newer Sony modells do not use the LPEC codec, which makes
> the mentioned recorders sound very good. The only new Sonys, which use
> LPEC are the stereo recorders, like ICD-ST10 and the Memory Stick
> machines, the ICD-MS515 for instance. They're relatively expensive and
> they use a single key for play, pause, backward, forward, menu and
> folder. This key doesn't work too well for me, I sometimes activate a
> function accidentally.
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> If you want to make longer recordings with insertions,=20
> overwrites etc.,
> the Olympus DS-2000 is great. You can hear a review of it in the Main
> Menu archive. It works with SmartMedia cards of up to 128 mb. One can
> record up to 16 hours in the good quality mode on a 128 mb card.
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> Olympus also makes some good conference recorders. They recently made
> the DS-2200 available. This recorder uses Olympus's XD=20
> Picture cards. As
> much as I know, one can use a 512 mb card in the 2200. I don't know
> exactly, how long one can record with such a card, but I believe, one
> could at least record 16 hours of WMA stereo material onto it.
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> <*** Michael Lang ***>
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> You wrote:
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> > Hi, I have an Olympus VN90 - I think - digital recorder.=20
> The issue is
> > that it is only using 90 minutes if recording is set to low, and it
> > sounds quite dreadful. On the normal setting, its only=20
> something like
> > 30 minutes. This was cheap, so its no problems, but the=20
> unit gets full
> > regularly, and I want to replace it with something reliable for work
> > use.
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> > Any suggestions?
> > Andrew.
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