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Re: Recorder comparison please

Subject: Re: Recorder comparison please
From: "Chris Edwards" chris2edwards
Date: Thu Jun 17, 2010 5:33 am ((PDT))
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Sean wrote:

| I must have the wrong PCM-M10 because mine only has two AA batteries and=

| I find it quite easy to change the batteries in...

Yep - and PCM-M10 battery life goes on for ever.  Probably 30 hours, or
more, from the 2 AAs.  And that's with bog-standard AAs, not hi-capacity
rechargeables!


| There's a couple of really great features on the m10 I like such as the
| pre-record buffer. start the recorder by pressing record button and wait=

| 5 seconds and you'll have a five second buffer.

The PCM-M10 pre-record feature is nice to have, but doesn't _quite_ work
in the way I'd like.  Yes, you get the buffering at the very beginning of
a file.  But, if like me, when the bird stops singing you tend to:

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