"oryoki2000" <> wrote:
> in 16/44.1 Group participant Julius Thyssen replied that he has
> successfully used the H120 in the field. (See Message 21469 and
> replies.)
That was the 140, which is the same model but with a 40GB disk.
( http://www.iriver.com/html/product/prpa_product.asp?pidx=3D43 )
> Are the H120's preamps as good as a $175 minidisc recorder? No.
> But with mics that have a hot output, or a subject
> that is pretty loud, the H120 will do fine.
The amp adds a slight amount of noise, but when you record
to WAV and digitally remove it, you can get rid of most of it.
I'm not very experienced in using MD recorders, never really
liked ATRAC compression much, I was used to using analogue and
DAT, must say this iRiver delivers amazing quality for the buck!
I really like that these iRivers record raw audio, as WAV,
(16 bit and 44.1 kHz) and don't do resampling or compression,
especially not when using rockbox firmware.
http://audio.jthz.com/rec/passing_train.mp3
is a short example of an unmodified iRiver recording,
where I used two lavalier mics. The wav is compressed
to mp3 on a PC, but I didn't do any denoising or
other processing on this example.
--
Julius
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