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Re: In need of a new sound recorder - what should I get?

Subject: Re: In need of a new sound recorder - what should I get?
From: "Rob Danielson" danielson_audio
Date: Thu Jul 2, 2009 11:02 pm ((PDT))
At 4:12 AM +0000 7/3/09, portellidean wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>A couple of years ago I bought a Sony MZ-RH1 recorder for recording 
>bird sound (with a Sennheiser ME67 shotgun microphone). It worked 
>well most of the time but has had a few problems and I have now 
>given up on fixing the thing and need to find a new recorder to buy 
>with equal or better performance.
>
>Since technology improves in leaps and bounds in a matter of months 
>and I am not tech savvy (at all!) I wonder if people have 
>suggestions of a reasonably priced recorder (i.e. ~AU$500) that is 
>easy to use, records high quality sounds, writes to disc/card 
>reasonably fast and allows manual control of gain.
>
>Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Cheers,
>Dean
>

Hi Dean--
There are other factors to consider, but for your ME-67, up to the 
standard of your Hi-MD in terms of mic input noise, there are only 
four new card recorders that compare: Fostex
FR-2LE, SONY PCM-D50, Marantz PMD661 and Marantz PMD671. The D50 
seems to get the most raves  and tests best for low noise after the 
Fostex,.. None are as small as your Hi-MD.

We're in the process of compiling and comparing recorder features of 
interest to nature recordists: 
http://www.uwm.edu/~type/audio-reports/RecorderList/RecorderList.htm 
There's a link on the page to download a .xls version of the list you 
can sort by feature. Rob D.

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