Hi Rick, you wrote: > Hi Michael, do you prefer this new Sony over the Olympus ds50 and if so, > why?
They both have their advantages and disadvantages: The Olympus offers talking menus, which makes working with it easy. One can precisely jump to specific times in a file by using the time navigation feature. The Sony is for people, who'd like to have more high quality features like manual recording level and line-in recording. It is a really nice recorder for radio broadcasts, because of its line-in recording facility. There is a resistor cable for the Olympus, which attanuates the line-in signal, so that it doesn't get distorted, when it is reamplified by the mic preamp, but this reamplification always adds some noise to the signal. The mic input of the Sony can easily be switched to line-in. Whenever one connects the recorder to something via the mic-in, it asks, whether the socket should be used as a mic input or line input. It remembers the last setting, so if one always uses it as a line input, one just presses the play / enter key. It's really interesting to compare the two and I could go on for some time I guess, but all in all I'd say, that the Olympus is easier to use, uses a not so propriatary format and has great time navigation features, while the Sony offers more high quality options. <*** Michael Lang ***> Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
