Greetings: You might also consider purchasing a CoreSound PDAudioCF card: http://www.core-sound.com/default.php It's a great card, I have one in a PCMCIA slot with a Flash adapter, works fine. I've tested it with ecasound with excellent results. Best, dp Frank Barknecht wrote: >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 > >