went loose on me, following advice from someone on this group I
bought a replacement in the form of an RM-MC38EL from Ebay (cheap
from a supplier in China, it came in 10 days) and it is now working
well. This replacement is of a much more subtsantial design than the
one bundled with the machine and I suspect Sony save money by
supplying a crummy one !
Hope this helps,
Chris
PS: I'd be interested in hearing others experiences with this machine
or comments from the experts on the set-up I'm using - I'm a bit
isolated where I live ! Thanks.
--- In "waynepadge"
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>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks for all the good discussion - it's been very helpful.
> -Wayne
>
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