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thanks for the input Pierre, I researched the best I could and decided on the Sharp MD recorder. thanks for the tips...sounds like you got a lot of use out of your MD to me ...4 to 10 hours a day for a year...that's a lot... where can I get the IBM mic.? thanks papadave55@hotmail.com ps (maybe you should buy another) >From: Pierre LIONNET <pierre.lionnet@eurospace.francenet.fr> >Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com >To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com >Subject: OT: Sharp MD 702 >Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 11:20:47 +0200 > >I have had a sharp MD portable recorder for a little over one year now... >And I used it extensively, almost 4 to 10 hours a day on average for both >recording and listening. I used to carry it along with me all the time to >capture sounds and noises. > >It worked well, except you can really feel the difference between the >recording and the original (the ATRAC compression is very hard with >hissing >sounds - it gets rid of 'em, as well as with scratches, hums and ambience >noises) when you record sampled music. Actually I have the feeling that >the >recordings sound very polished compared to the original and this is only >due to the ATRAC compression. Sounds like the very old fashioned DOLBY A >of >the low end tape recorders of the early eighties... without the flutter. > >Regarding recording from a microphone I had my best results (strangely >enough) with the little microphone that was supplied with my IBM >computer... don't ask why or how: crystal clear sound with no audible >difference from the original. But then I used it only to record speech and >ambient sounds (trains pasing by, cars in traffic jams etc.). > >As a whole I have been happy with the unit until the warranty expired >(after 12 months) and 4 days (repeat FOUR DAYS) after it broke down... >The unit is now useless, and *FUNNY* enough it CANNOT be repaired (at >least >not here in PARIS France) because the repairmen cannot run the routine >TESTS on the unit which is not able anymore to support them. Indeed the >problem is that the unit cannot access anymore the Table of Contents of >whatever MD you slot in. Of course it will not be replaced (warranty >expired...) >Note that the unit was not dropped, nor exposed to excessive heat or >whatever. > >I may have been unlucky, but I believe others may face the same problem, >so >BEWARE. > >Also you HAVE to know that you cannot always EDIT (and sometimes not even >REPRODUCE) the music recorded on a MD by a given model with another >model... > >My next buy wil be a CD recorder instead, I am also fed up with the price >of blank MDs (an average 25-30 French francs where a blank CD is less than >10 Francs). But what am I gonna do with my MD collection? > >Good Bye > >PiR - FreezerMan > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com