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Summary: Perfect for Bird Recordings
Review: Just put it on the ground where there is a mysterious bird song, or next to the bird feeder, and let it record in Hi Quality mode for a hour. Or carry it on walks and bike rides to catch that bird song that's been bugging you for years, and carry it home to compare with Peterson or Stokes CDs.There's no bass response to speak of (good for birds) and the highs are excellent and there's absolutely no mechanical noise of course. Save short segments you want to remember in another folder, and do it all again. Attaching a length of day-glo tape to the hand-strap hole will not only help you find it in the field, but also helps find it in the house, where it instantly disappears in the clutter otherwise. I bought it to record 4 hours of Imus each day, but the low quality mode isn't quite up to it. The other two modes are okay. It uses 3.5mm mono jacks for input and output, to record off the air or play back through your computer or stereo.
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Summary: Great for notes; less great for longer text
Review: LOVE the portability and size, love not having to worry about tapes. Great for quick notes. But if you try to record long conversations (I'm a speechwriter and record input from my clients), the controls are so sensitive that you can end up wasting time through failed attempts to scroll back to earlier dialogue (ending up in a different file, instead, and having to re-start.) A terrific invention, but it truly seems better for fast "to do" notes than for long text files you later wish to process.
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Summary: James Bond Never Had This
Review: Now here's a product that anyone can use. Smaller than a pack of cigarettes and half an inch thin. It records crystal clear sound using intergrated circuits. It has a voice activated feature so the 66 minutes of HQ sound are not wasted. If you need standard sound quality you get 266 minutes (almost 5 hours) of recording. The unit has an extremely sensitive microphone so you can leave it anywhere and pick up what's being said and you don't even have to be there. Very undercover if you know what I mean. It has a clock and various folders so you can store your recordings by category and priority. One folder might be where you keep something for a long time. Another folder might be where you keep messages that will soon be erased. You can divide messages and store what you want. The machine automatically starts a new message without ever 'writing' over an old one. You can create up to 396 new messages and then scroll thru all of them numerically or simply by listening. Simply amazing. Be careful, it's high-tech enough where you can get into trouble by listening and recording things you shouldn't be. By the way, it's totally quiet.
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Summary: James Bond Never Had This
Review: Now here's a product that anyone can use. Smaller than a pack of cigarettes and half an inch thin. It records crystal clear sound using intergrated circuits. It has a voice activated feature so the 66 minutes of HQ sound are not wasted. If you need standard sound quality you get 266 minutes (almost 5 hours) of recording. The unit has an extremely sensitive microphone so you can leave it anywhere and pick up what's being said and you don't even have to be there. Very undercover if you know what I mean. It has a clock and various folders so you can store your recordings by category and priority. One folder might be where you keep something for a long time. Another folder might be where you keep messages that will soon be erased. You can divide messages and store what you want. The machine automatically starts a new message without ever 'writing' over an old one. You can create up to 396 new messages and then scroll thru all of them numerically or simply by listening. Simply amazing. Be careful, it's high-tech enough where you can get into trouble by listening and recording things you shouldn't be. By the way, it's totally quiet.
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Summary: Excellent little recorder
Review: Wanting to move up from a Panasonic mini-cassette recorder that I was very satisfied with, I started looking at Panasonic digital recorders. The device records anything from notes to lectures crisply and clearly, especially at High Quality mode but surprisingly well in Standard (SP) mode. Much improved from the mini-cassette, from my use, recording on this device in Long Play (LP) mode provides equivalent clarity as my mini-cassette recorder in 2.4 speed. The VAS system is very useful during lectures to eliminate those periods of silent notetaking, but distressingly shares the habit of cutting off the first bit every continuation from a pause, as my VAS mini-cassette recorder did. The device's design is made for ease of use, and after 5-10 minutes, you've pretty much mastered how to use the device. However, the multi-function wheel on the upper right corner of the device gets a little irritating since it's in an awkward position, but the wheel is used for most tasks, such as scroll, select, and play. Nevertheless, the device is an extreme pleasure to use. The quality of the recordings is excellent, and the microphone, when set to High-pickup, is great. The size of the device makes it easy enough to slip into a front pocket. Understandibly the cost is a little high, but if you can afford it and you'd like to try something with better quality sound, this is an excellent product to consider.
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Summary: Perfect Product
Review: What a great step forward! The micro tape machines never made it for note taking. This item is the size of a business card and half an inch thick. It drops into my shirt pocket with my Rex Pro and a supply of business cards -- all without making the pocket droop. Quality of sound is fine to great at standard and high quality modes. I haven't ever come close to using all 396 individual note files in 4 folders. Driving in the car it easily comes out of my pocket to catch a note. Notes can be shifted from folder to folder. When I arrive in the office in the morning I find I have at least 10 notes that came to mind overnight. And, (using another folder) I remember to tell my spouse those things I was forgetting before! Long notes can be divided to capture the essence and drop the chaf. Battery usage is very low. There are more features than I find in the product descriptions; for instance you can scan the first 5 seconds of every message in a folder. I wanted to buy based on what was said by users on Amazon ...!
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Summary: Perfect Product
Review: What a great step forward! The micro tape machines never made it for note taking. This item is the size of a business card and half an inch thick. It drops into my shirt pocket with my Rex Pro and a supply of business cards -- all without making the pocket droop. Quality of sound is fine to great at standard and high quality modes. I haven't ever come close to using all 396 individual note files in 4 folders. Driving in the car it easily comes out of my pocket to catch a note. Notes can be shifted from folder to folder. When I arrive in the office in the morning I find I have at least 10 notes that came to mind overnight. And, (using another folder) I remember to tell my spouse those things I was forgetting before! Long notes can be divided to capture the essence and drop the chaf. Battery usage is very low. There are more features than I find in the product descriptions; for instance you can scan the first 5 seconds of every message in a folder. I wanted to buy based on what was said by users on Amazon ...!
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Summary: How do you say "over-engineered"?
Review: Yes it's handy to have such a small recorder, with such long recording length and no tape to worry about. That's why I squeezed out four stars instead of three. But the manual -- and the learning curve instructions it purports to explain -- is irritatingly unclear and tricky. I'm glad to have it now ... and I look forward to one with greater ease of use and finesse one day. For example, if Macintosh ever makes one ....
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