Sony ICDSX46 - 128MB Digital Voice Recorder w/ MP3 Playback
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Customer Review: Nice product
Summary: 4 Stars
I have no complains about this product, Im very satisfied and i would recoment it to other costumer, its a little expensive and its worth it.Customer Review: Sony ICDSX46 - 128MB Digital Voice Recorder
Summary: 4 Stars
So far so good. I haven't used to the maximum extent. I still have to explore all the features and the audio capabilities in a large crowd.Customer Review: Good sound in a small package
Summary: 3 Stars
The sound quality is excellent and noise discrimination (separation of background noise from voices) makes taking notes or interviews with noisy backgrounds much better than anything else I have used.
The only fault, and for me is ridiculous, is that Sony adopted a file format that will only function with windows. This makes it impossible to back up files on a computer that does not run Windows. It seems hard to imagine that they would have done this when there are numerous file formats that can be read by nearly anything.
Customer Review: good, but
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a good voice recorder with lots of useful functions.
The problem is Mac incompatibility. It is amazing that Sony wouldn't develop a way around this.
Customer Review: background noice is too high to handle
Summary: 2 Stars
background noice is too high to handle. I am not a newbie for using voice recorder. I got my first JNC one on 1999. That one was broken days ago. Frankly, my JNC is a lot better than this one on sound quality issue but a little bit cheaper. (I use ST mode, the best mode of sony, the background is still loud, also the file size per se is so dreadful to a 128M memory.)
I did some research on voice recoder online before jump. Eventually, I decided to focus on Olympus DS2 and sony icd-sx46. Sine ds2 is in a huge size and 64M memory, I risk this one even though some sounds have mentioned its background noise problem. I thought they do not know how to operate it. I am wrong!!! I tried any possible approach to lower down the background noise, no way to beat it! The file's sound quality is not better than those wav files recorded by my Creative ZEN nano plus mp3 player.
Since the design is ok and nice-looking, so I don't give 1 or 0 star. If just for sound quality, it deserves minus stars.
In addition, the manual is the most horrible one in the whole world, it is like a huge piece of junk newpaper.
Do not buy it!
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I don't know how the earlier reviews are so high.
cons:
0. ***background noice is too high to handle.
1. You cann't go forward or backward when you pause the file, it will jump to another file.
2. You can not go in a file from the end, that is so horrible for a long record.
3. Mp3 feature is a piece of junk, you only can upload files in special bps and Hz. If you convert the file into sony's junk format, indeed, it will be in smaller file size but the sound is too dry to stand.
4. Without backlight, it is really stupid.
5. 'Digital Voice Editor 2' distributed with recorder has a big flaw. When you save a sound file to PC, it uses the current PC time to sign the file, the time of file recorded is totally lost. My JNC's software, which is created 6 years ago, can keep the time recorded when files are exported to PC. Sony is really lousy.
pros:
It is good-looking, if you want to use it to attract attention.
All in all, since it is very inconvenient to play sound files in this small "gadget", it is just a recoder with a lousy record quality.
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11/01/2006
After using it for a couple of weeks, I came back to add some things.
1. the proprietary file format of sony is very inconvenient.
2. The player does not show the file length when you play it or switch to it. Also, switching the display mode by menu is so clumsy. Several times, it causes I delete files incorrectly.
I feel weird, why 3 people disagree with me. Why you don't point out some highlights of it. (except for it is from a japanese company and nice-looking)