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Re: Hard disk or Minidisc?

Subject: Re: Hard disk or Minidisc?
From: "artistico7" <>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:43:43 -0000
--- In  Aaron Ximm <> 
wrote:
> > new Sony 1Gb Minidisc system, the iRiver Hard drive audio systems
> > and the 60 and 80 gigabyte Neuros seems to offer non-compression
> > wave recording.
> 
> NB: there is a well-documented bug in the iRiver iHP series such 
that when
> recording uncompressed it drops a few hundred samples from time to 
time;

Thanks, Aaron,

very helpful to know, and that fact definitely makes it useless as 
far as I am concerned...

Does anyone know anything of how the Neuros compares in this respect?
 
> You might consider the Edirol R1 recorder; it's biggest limitation 
is that
> it has no digital input...

Also, it has a more limiting battery capacity than Minidisc, and is 
limited by the size of costly Compact Flash cards, but for my use, 
it isn't impossible that it might well be sufficient. I won't need 
digital input, just output, which it does have, and I do have a few 
extra 512 meg CF cards lying around since last time I got a digital 
camera which, albeit of poor quality, might just be good enough. 1.5 
megs of CF should be enough for recording close to the battery 
capacity anyhow. Sounds like it might be a safer bet than running 
around trying to get hold of 1GB minidiscs.

Hakon
www.HakonSoreide.com





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