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michael_m

8/4/05 11:58 pm

In blind cool tech, they reviewed the iriver 899. It holds a gig of recording time and that amounts to something like 30 hours. It is 180 bucks. Earl wants to selll me a $500 mp3 recorder. can handle up to 3 gig. I wonder how the recording quality compares, because the iriver was not bad at all.

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• flashmasterh

  8/5/05 04:25 pm (UTC)

  $500 for 3 gb? That doesn't sound like a good deal to me. I have the IRiver 795 which is 512 mb and I paid $98 for it. You could get a bookcourier for that price, and expand it to 2 gb for $500.

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  • 500 mp3 recorder

    michael_m

    8/5/05 04:52 pm (UTC)

    you can see details at
    http://www.triumphonic.com
    it's called the r1recorder. tell me what you think.

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  • r1 recorder

    michael_m

    8/5/05 05:39 pm (UTC)

    I am starting to think the high price of this thing is because it has lots of features, which I suspect would be unusable for a blind person. THoughts?
    http://www.edirol.com/press/html/2005/012005_r1_pr.html

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    • Re: r1 recorder

      flashmasterh

      8/5/05 06:13 pm (UTC)

      Personally, I still feel like its a bit pricey. I don't know what you want to do with the recorder, but the IRiver works really well. Darcy and I use it for our podcast. The podcasts we did in july excluding the 4th, and the 31st. The dates are July 7thh, July 13th, and July 18th. We had an external stereo mic from visivox. The fiels are compressed. One thing to keep in mind is that if you upgrade the IRiver's firmware to work with windows explorerer as a drive, the one limitation is that you can only record from the external mic at 96 kbps. It still sounds pretty good though.
      
      It sounds to me like the R1 recorder is more profesional grade. I guess it depends on what you want it for, like I said. I'm no audio engineer though, I just know the IRiver works for me.

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