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Re: Future recording, part deux: Orban Sountainer

Subject: Re: Future recording, part deux: Orban Sountainer
From: Aaron Ximm <>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:11:37 -0800 (PST)
> No bigger than a flip-top cell phone and weighing only 5 ounces, this
> diminutive product is designed for field recording.  The Sountainer
> captures near-CD-quality stereo sound (128-Kbps data rate sampled at
> 44.1 kHz) to solid state multimedia cards (MMC).  A single 256MB
> memory card can hold up to 4.5 hours of mono MP3 recorded at this
> data rate.  Upload recordings to PC or Mac via USB.  No indication of

MD is arguably a better solution to this -- ever so slightly bigger, but
you can carry many times the media at a fraction of the cost.  And record
at higher quality...

The trick of course is that you can't upload to a PC via USB from MD --
yet. :(

aaron

  
  http://www.quietamerican.org



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