RE: Dictaphone recomendations

  • From: "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <voicerec-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 12:12:31 +0100

Hi,

I should have said what I wanted to do was record notes - i.e, record
quite long notes from phone conversations, without having to stop/start,
but be able to go through the notes easily).

Andrew.=20

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> From: voicerec-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=20
> [mailto:voicerec-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson
> Sent: 05 June 2004 10:48
> To: voicerec-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Dictaphone recomendations
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> Hi Michael,
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> Can you also explain about the DM1 from Olympus?  What are=20
> the good/bad
> points on this recorder?
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> Andrew.=3D20
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: voicerec-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=3D20
> > [mailto:voicerec-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Lang
> > Sent: 05 June 2004 04:38
> > To: Andrew Hodgson
> > Subject: Re: Dictaphone recomendations
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> > Hi Andrew,
> >=3D20
> > 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=20
> manufactured, but
> > one can get them relatively easy via Ebay. You can append to=3D20
> > notes with
> > these recorders, which isn't possible with the Olympus note=3D20
> > takers. The
> > B25 and the BP150 have 16 mb of built-in memory, one can=3D20
> > record around 2
> > hours of good quality messages with them. The ICD-BP100 has=20
> only eight
> > megs of memory.
> >=3D20
> > Most of the newer Sony modells do not use the LPEC codec,=20
> which makes
> > the mentioned recorders sound very good. The only new=20
> Sonys, which use
> > LPEC are the stereo recorders, like ICD-ST10 and the Memory Stick
> > machines, the ICD-MS515 for instance. They're relatively=20
> 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=20
> activate a
> > function accidentally.
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> > If you want to make longer recordings with insertions,=3D20
> > overwrites etc.,
> > the Olympus DS-2000 is great. You can hear a review of it=20
> in the Main
> > Menu archive. It works with SmartMedia cards of up to 128=20
> mb. One can
> > record up to 16 hours in the good quality mode on a 128 mb card.
> >=3D20
> > Olympus also makes some good conference recorders. They=20
> recently made
> > the DS-2200 available. This recorder uses Olympus's XD=3D20
> > 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=20
> believe, one
> > could at least record 16 hours of WMA stereo material onto it.
> >=3D20
> >    <*** Michael Lang ***>
> >=3D20
> > You wrote:
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> > > Hi, I have an Olympus VN90 - I think - digital recorder.=3D20
> > The issue is
> > > that it is only using 90 minutes if recording is set to=20
> low, and it
> > > sounds quite dreadful. On the normal setting, its only=3D20
> > something like
> > > 30 minutes. This was cheap, so its no problems, but the=3D20
> > unit gets full
> > > regularly, and I want to replace it with something=20
> reliable for work
> > > use.
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> > > Any suggestions?
> > > Andrew.
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