Hallo, Paul Davis hat gesagt: // Paul Davis wrote: > 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: http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MicroTrack2496-main.html http://www.edirol.com/products/info/r1.html or go for a really small laptop. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
