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Comparing (some) handheld digital recorders, part II

Subject: Comparing (some) handheld digital recorders, part II
From: "Matt Blaze" matthew.blaze
Date: Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:53 pm ((PDT))
There's been some discussion here recently of the challenges of
capturing good stereo images of sea and surf, so I repeated my
recorder comparison (of the Nagra ARES-MII, Olympus LS-10, Sony PCM-D1
and -D50, Zoom H4n, and a M/S pair of MKH-800s) on an empty beach in
the San Francisco Bay.

This test, the white noise of the sea across the width of the
soundstage, really pushes these little recorders and their sub-optimal
microphone arrangements beyond what they can do as far as capturing a
good image; many of the results seem all but monaural.

The new recordings (48 second MP3s) can be found at
       http://www.crypto.com/audio/shootout/


-matt


mab blogs at http://www.crypto.com/blog/









"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause


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