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Re: battery life of small audio recorders

Subject: Re: battery life of small audio recorders
From: "Kevin Colver" kjcolver
Date: Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:41 am ((PST))
Thanks to All for the evaluations.
Kevin

On Nov 10, 2009, at 7:39 PM, oryoki2000 wrote:

> Stephanie Wingate has posted the results of a real world battery
> life test on her web site, http://www.wingfieldaudio.com This is the
> most comprehensive test of battery life in pocket-size audio
> recorders anywhere! Thanks to Stephanie for her hard work.
>
> Stephanie tested all 16 recorders that she sells. To make sure that
> the recorders would not run out of storage space before the battery
> expired, digitization was set to MP3 format at 128 kbps.
>
> Because the Sony PCM-D50 and PCM-D1 units don't record MP3, they
> were set to capture WAV files at 16/22.05.
>
> Results:
> first place.....Sony PCM-M10...43.0 hours
> second place....Sony PCM-D50...25.5 hours
> third place......Olympus LS-11...19.2 hours
>
> See the web page for the rest of the results
> http://www.wingfieldaudio.com/portable-recorder-battery-life.html
>
> Of course the results would be different if the recorders were
> digitizing at 24/96 (writing more data per second uses more power),
> and providing plug-in power to external mics. But the rank order is
> unlikely to change.
>
> Thanks to Tapers Section participant "labello" for bringing this to
> our attention.
>
> --oryoki
>
>
>










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