Welcome Wayne. I have some filter design questions I'll work up!
The HiMD Forum had a great features comparison sequence:
http://www.minidisc.org/part_Sony_MZ-M10+RH910.ht
You might want to consider the nh700's that are floating around for
~$120 that Oryoki found. I like em. Same rotary knob as the Nh900.
Plastic body, but so is the 910. Its uses AA bats, checks out fine.
Or get a RH-1 with mac/pc compatibility, other useful features. Its
now on the HiMD Forum sequence too. Rob D.
At 7:11 PM +0000 6/9/06, waynepadge wrote:
>Greetings,
>I'm new, after lurking for a week or two.
>About myself - I teach electrical engineering (DSP courses
>especially). I like audio, mike arrays, filter design, tinkering, etc.
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>Currently, I'm trying to get my kids interested in recording bird
>calls, so we built a parabolic mike out of cardboard (thanks to links
>from this list!). It seems to work ok, especially for a near zero
>budget, but I've discovered I have almost nothing to record with. My
>old Superscope CD320 has lost its main belt and the portable cassette
>recorder we have is uselessly noisy. I'm going to try the laptop
>soundcard this weekend. I will try to post a photo of the dish in the
>future.
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>I am using a Superscope EC-3S Cardioid mike in the dish (pointed
>toward the dish), but without a good recorder it's hard to tell how
>well that's working - hopefully I'll be able to make some useful
>measurements with the laptop.
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>Anyway the question of the day is would an RH910 minidisc player be a
>good choice for a portable recorder? I've seen lots of good comments
>on MD in general, and the RH910 looks like a reasonable choice, but
>there are so many models, I'm worried it will turn out to be one that
>is missing some important feature. Anybody want to wave me off?
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>Thanks for all the good discussion - it's been very helpful.
>-Wayne
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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Rob Danielson
Peck School of the Arts
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
http://www.uwm.edu/~type/audio-art-tech-gallery/
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