Re: Looking for portable audio recorder for making audio-books...

Thanks, Jeff and Laurence... I'm getting closer! Maybe! : )

I see now that a separate mic might be best. --Altho, yet again, I
suppose I can edit out mechanism clunks. ? Simplicity of device really
is VERY important.

This whole quality thing, though, as you mention, is relative. But I
don't really need a totally pro result. Yet I don't want it sounding
bad, noisy, tinny, whatever. You audio guys obviously know sound like I
never will. So I suppose I need a "medium" quality result. : )

By "cheap" I meant something like a $100 MD device---not an actual
cheapy dimestore tape device. $300 is steep seeming for slow Stereo-HQ
upload. I can perhaps find an MD device that records Stereo-HQ but
can't do file-transwer. Well, fine, I'll do line-in to my computer in
live time. How much does the sound degrade?

Oh well, maybe I should bite the bullet and buy a schweet MZ-RH10 and
$65 mic. I sure hope my author doesn't bust the thing. I would like to
GIVE it to him, but that's a lot of book royalty...

Again, I wonder how much worse the audio file is on a digi-vid than
Stereo-HQ...

--JP

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