I've had mini disc recorders since 1996 and really love them. I have the sony 505, and even though it doesn't have a mike input, I use it to listen to music while I ring bells during xmas time for the Salvation Army. I do have a sony MZR90. An it's one of the older portable models and it does have a mike input. The only thing is when you get in to the menue, you need to keep track of the amount of times you move the wheel to keep track of which function you want to go too. I also have an MDSJE480 home minidis recorder, and I really love it. That one and the 505 portable will play the LP2 LP4 and the SP sampling rates. But the MZR90 will only play the SP sampling rates. The MDSJE 480 doesn't have a mike input. I do have a stereo tie clip mike I use for the MZR90. It's a cheap mike, but really it sounds quite nice. the only draw back with the MZR90 is that you can't move it around much while in the record mode, or it will mistrack. But over all I like the minidisk format quite well. Kevin
On Tue, 24 May 2005 15:49:08 -0600 "Bobcat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael. The new Olympus interests me. I just lost my Olympus VN1800 > So > I'm in the market for another memory aid. Will be nice for > recording choir > practices too. They finally came out with the sort of recorder I > wanted. > Only wish it had more memory but 128 megs will do, especially for > the aprox > $100 price tag. I sure hope it uses multiple beeps for selecting > folders > the way my 1800 did. It had 1 to 4 short beeps for 4 folders. The > other > functions on the 1800 had useful audible tons as well. Only thing I > could > not work was the calendar function. I notice that a model reviewed > on Main > menu only used one tone so it was harder to keep track of folders. > That was > a step in the wrong direction from Olympus. > > I would go for a Mini-disk but it seems they all have some sort of > accessability drawbacks. > > I'll have to figure out a way to keep the new Olympus from getting > away from > me. Maybe I'll use the neck cord. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 10:47 AM > Subject: Re: Minidisc recorder Drawback > > > > Steve, you wrote: > > > > > I just checked again. USB for input only. > > > > No, one can upload recordings with the MZ-RH910 however, one has > to use > > SonicStage and I often heard, that it sometimes eats uploaded > files, > > after which they're neither on the MD nor on the PC. For > relatively high > > quality speech recordings, you could use the new Olympus WS-200s, > a > > little recorder, which records in Windows Media Audio format 64 > KBPS. > > The machine has a built-in USB plug, so that one can upload > recordings > > to a PC, without having to do any kind of conversion. Don't know > what it > > would cost you, I don't live in the U. S., but it shouldn't be > more than > > $120. But this isn't a music recorder. For a good music recorder > with > > upload capabilities, you'd have to spend $600 or so, that would > get you > > a Marantz PMD660 with track marking, silent skip and so on. > > > > <*** Michael Lang ***> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > > http://www.pc-audio.org > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
