>From: Stainless Steel Rat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>* mjarco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 25 May 2000
>| I have heard opinions that this model, | overall, was the best mini
>recorder
>| that Sony ever made. Any truth to this last statement?
>
>Never was. For its day it was the smallest, but that is the extent of its
>superiority. If you want something in the same general class, the
>MZ-R90/91 is superior in every respect.
Ooh ooh, my personal soapbox!
Some differences between the two.
The R9* is smaller.
The R9* uses a smaller cheaper battery & gets a slightly longer life.
The R50 has a separate line-out, the R9* uses the cranked headphone jack,
which is fine, but isn't line level, and can't use the remote as
conveniently this way.
The R50 has a barely adequate mic preamp, the R9* is hopelessly inadequate.
(They both suck here, the R9* sucks more.)
The R50 has earphones I could live with, the R9* earphones immediately
headed for the trash.
The R50 remote stays where you clip it. The R9* remote doesn't, plus the
view angle is exactly wrong, and it's flimsier.
Thr R50 has most functions directly accessible. The R9* forces you to go
through menus for some, which isn't terrible, but not as good.
*I* think the R50 is better, but really depends on you. Clearly you can get
around the earphone & mic problems by buying new bits. These size wars
don't do any favours, they keep cutting bits off that I'd actually like to
retain.
But it could get better, who knows? I thought the R55 was the lowest to
date (sorry!), and the R9* an improvement over that, but still not as good
as the R50. <puts soapbox away>
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