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9. Re: LS-10 vs 702, ambience

Subject: 9. Re: LS-10 vs 702, ambience
From: "escalation746" escalation746
Date: Sat Aug 15, 2009 5:57 pm ((PDT))
Raimund Specht wrote:

> What I meant is that the REC LEVEL dial is an
> attenuator. So, as long as you set it to the maximum
> position of "10" it does not attenuate the signal.
>
> I believe that the HIGH SENSE setting internally
> inserts an additional preamplifier stage (or it
> increases the gain of the preamplifier).

Just from listening, I am quite sure you are correct.

> Personally, I wouldn't care much about an increase
> of the overall self-noise level of lets say 1 or 2 dB
> that might be caused by the poor preamplifier. I
> would just accept this minor disadvantage for the
> small size and weight of a particular recorder

I agree. The Olympus LS-10 does a good job, and this becomes even better wh=
en the price and size of the unit are factored in. Not to mention the build=
 quality, which is streets ahead of any other small recorder.

P.S. Would now be a good time to remind people to please TRIM THEIR POSTS. =
No-one can read three-deep nested quotes within quotes anyway.

-- robin







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