On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 20:42 +0000, S. Massy wrote:
For a project of mine, I would need a portable,
affordable ($200-250)
way to make quality stereo recordings of natural and/or urban
environments. Here are the criteria I have defined so far:
* sr should be at least 44.1khz
* recording should be stereo
* if compressed, prefer lossless compression, otherwise, good quality
encoding: minimum 160kbps
* Should be reasonably portable (i.e compact and battery-operated) and
sturdy.
we just got an iAudio X5. its a disk-based system, not flash. rugged,
thought not "industrially" so, interacts perfectly with linux (USB mass
storage device, no special playlist s/w required). plays videos, WAV,
FLAC, ogg as well as the usual mp3/wma crowd. has line-in, though
through an "expander" connector.
But this iAudio only records mp3, doesn't it? Which sucks for field
recordings especially.
(Expensive) alternatives might be these:
or go for a really small laptop.
Ciao
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Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__