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Re: Sony PCM-M10 - another new pocket-size recorder

Subject: Re: Sony PCM-M10 - another new pocket-size recorder
From: "Klas Strandberg" klasstrandberg
Date: Mon Jul 20, 2009 4:22 am ((PDT))
The mic placement is my only worry: Are they cardioids? If so, where 
is the intake to the back of the membranes?

Klas.


At 21:11 2009-07-19, you wrote:
>This looks great.  The smaller size and use of a commodity memory card
>are big improvements, and but for a few things, this could be the
>sweet spot compromise for an all-around handheld recorder (assuming
>the mics and preamps are up to the D50's standard).
>
>I notice the mic capsules are spaced on the corners, similar to the
>way they are in the LS-10.  It's not clear from the photos or the
>video whether theyflipped inward the way they can on the D50, but even
>if they do, it looks like they'd still be about 3cm apart.  So at
>best, the XY mode in the M10 would be even less coincident than they
>are in the D1 and D50  (which are about 1cm apart, center-center).
>
>-matt
>
>
>On Jul 19, 2009, at 12:58, oryoki2000 wrote:
>
> > Another pocket-size recorder has been announced at the
> > Summer NAMM show in Nashville, Tennessee USA.  It's the
> > Sony PCM-M10.
> >
> > The PCM-M10 is smaller and, at $399, somewhat cheaper
> > than Sony's PCM-D50.  Controls and feature set seem very
> > close to the D50, so it's not clear how Sony plans to
> > differentiate between the two machines. Since my major
> > fomplaint about the D50 is its size, I think Sony have
> > a winner in the M10.
> >
> > Here's a web page with a brief description of the M10,
> > plus a video interview with the product manager.
> >
> > http://www.soundonsound.com/news?NewsID=11803
> >
> > --oryoki
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> > sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie
> > Krause
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>------------------------------------
>
>"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
>sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
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