Re: High resolution digital recorders

On Oct 17, 9:32 am, Leo <nob...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My key criteria are:
- Price - around £500 / $1000
- Uses removable media which can store at least 2 hrs at the above
resolutions
- PC connectivity to allow for easy import of audio into Audition
(running on XP not Mac)

2 hours at 24/96 on removable media (4 GB) is not quite leading edge
technology but it's just starting to come down to a reasonable price
($50 or so), and not all flash memory recorders are capable of using 8
GB memory cards yet. I like the idea of a hard drive. Those two-hour
shows are always about ten minutes longer than the memory card you
have installed.

If you can get over the removable media thing and don't mind mini
jacks and no phantom power, I'd recommend the Korg MR-1. It has a
built-in 20 GB hard drive, a USB port for easy transfer to a computer,
and it records in a wide range of formats from 120 kbps MP3 up to 2.8
MHz DSD. I reviewed in Pro Audio Review August 2007:
http://www.proaudioreview.com/pages/s.0035/t.8221.html

I liked it a lot. The more "pro" version with XLR connectors, the
MR-1000, is about $1500 on the street, which is a bit more than I was
willing to spend on a portable recorder, but I was awfully tempted by
the MR-1. The mini jacks were really my only hangup, but for me that's
a big hangup.

.

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