Advantages: Cheaper than others on market Disadvantages: Sound quality low, long distances barely picked up, battery life short
...And it was this. The Sony ICD-P520. I found after an entire year of use that there were several problems with this product. Without an external microphone, often the voices of lecturers not more than 3m away from my desk were drowned out by the noise of paper shuffling and murmered voices in the background. These microphones cost about £20 and shouldn't have been a necessity. Not only that, but the dictaphone was battery draining beyond expectation. ... ...software NOT provided by the Sony website to access recordings. You *cannot* lose the software and driver CD. But the advantages of this software is that it allows you to save these recordings as pretty much any file format you need to. As well as this, the software is NOT mac compatible. That's right, the ever growing numbers of people opting to choose Mac OS are excluded in one swoop by Sony's lack of accessibility.
Now that I've tackled the problems ...
fimsy 24.09.2008
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