[grc] Help me choose a recorder?

[David Goodman]

Nobody beats Marantz for ruggedness. But I've dropped my Zoom H4n and as
they say in advertising: "takes a licking and keeps on ticking..."
dg

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Paul Bame <bame at riverrock.org> wrote:

>
>
> Olympus LS-10 can sometimes be found used for a reasonable price.
> Compact.
> Metal case, quiet rotary controls for record and monitor volume
> which can be used
> while using the internal mics, which are quite decent,
> without causing case
> noise. Nice selection of recording modes including
> pseudo-directional, and
> automatic, or manual, level control with decent
> meters.
> Uses AA batteries which increases flexibility in the field over
> recorders
> with custom or wired-in rechargeables. Has consumer-grade
> low-voltage
> phantom power.
>
> Downsides: external mic connector is stereo
> mini (no XLR or 1/4"). With an 8GB
> add-on card, it can take a minute for
> the USB side of things to warm up.
> Cost.
>
> I find that the high build
> quality is immediately obvious as soon as one is picked
> up and makes the
> Zooms, which are fine in their own right, seem like fragile
> plastic
> toys.
>
>  -p
>
> On 2015-02-26 13:46, Brian Shiratsuki wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb
> 24, 2015 at 12:05 AM, Frieda Werden <wings at wings.org> wrote:
> >> My old
> Zoom H2 is dying (both the external power supply and the line-in no
> >>
> longer function) and I'm looking to choose a replacement...
> >
> > well,
> transom likes the sony m10. two other favored models are by
> > tascam,
> and the third by sound devices is pricey and weighs ``less
> > than three
> pounds.'' B&H offers the sony in three colors for $200.
> >
> > no
> experience here with portable recorders. however i have had two
> > pocket
> audio devices (smart phones, as they call them) fail due to
> > lint. a
> palm centro collected lint in the headphone / mic jack; the
> > internal
> mic connection became flakey and eventually failed. applying
> > a
> toothpick restored function.
> >
> > more recently a nexus 4 became
> difficult to charge through its micro
> > USB charge / data connector. i
> had a wireless qi charger in my virtual
> > shopping cart before figuring
> out how to clean out the connector using
> > small pieces of thin
> cardboard.
> >
> > so maybe you can save the H2, if only for use as a
> backup.
> >
> > brian s
> >
> >
> >
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