The recorder is a great product as most Sony products are. There is one major problem if you bought this product to do automatic dictation to text with Dragon Naturally Speaking. The bundled...
The first thought that went through my mind when i opened the package was, "What was Sony thinking?" Everything except play, record and stop is controlled via a joystick on the front panel. It's...
I have used a lot of different styles of digital recorders and this is with out a doubt the best for the money I have used. The recording quality is excellent for a recorder in this price range,...
Device great but don't buy if you only have Macintosh
The device is great, audio quality and features fine, but their proprietary audio format and lack of ANY Macintosh software that can read it is infuriating. Fortunately I use boot camp but it is a...
Good for Voice Recognition; Ergonomics Need Improvement
Having used voice recorders daily for 20 years, I always find Olympus brands to be more sturdy, ergonomic, reliable and have better warranty policies and service. The reason to buy this Sony was...
At first I was taken by the Zoom H4, then the H2. But both are for hobbyists who want to devote hours to recording--just look at the promotional literature that comes with the H4n. Maybe for...
Semi-Pro portable audio recorders have come a long way from the days of the bulky reel-to-reel Uhers and the compact but fragile Walkmans, with the emphasis now squarely on solid build, a minimum...
It works quite well - as long as you are nowhere near the unit. If you touch it while recording, be ready for some serious booming sounds. There is no isolation from the mics to the unit. No one...
This device, is small, lightweight, easy to use (as long as you read the instructions first) and very portable. You can choose whether you want 60 hours of record time (LP), or 300 (EP). There...
If you're interested in a unit to record music - buy something else. The documentation could be better considering it's made by Sony. We use it for shopping lists and reminders of tasks to be done....
This is a great product to record lectures. It doesn't matter where you sit in the classroom, the audio quality is great. The only problem is that you can't transfer the tape recordings to a PC,...
The package was easy to open, but that is where easy stopped. The directions are not user friendly as I am still trying to figure out how to turn the recorder on. I have yet to actually use the...
I use this for meetings and note taking. Documentation is not the best, but once through the learning curve, it works great. Dragon is not the greatest, but it works well once you have figured it...
I purchased this product to help with note taking. The user manual is not very helpful. I am a novice with a lot of technical equipment, but am not a dummy and it seems that the instructions...
As an audio engineer of many years I was looking for something compact as an inexpensive grab and go recording source. The Sony delivers decent basic capabilities but falls short on a number of...
I agree with some of the other reviewers that this small digital recorder is over-engineered. There are too many irrelevant bells and whistles that will probably NEVER be used by anyone!
I should have done more research on this prior to purchase. I thought that since it was a digital recorder and had microphone input and headset output that I would be able to download the digital...
I bought this because of the Sony name, and am regretting it now -- the sound quality is horrible. I'm a med student and use it to record lectures -- the sound quality is so bad I can't understand...
I really thought that this recorder being made by Sony would be of good quality, it seems that I dreamed for so much, this is probably the worst Sony product I ever invested in. The sound of the...
The product is perfect in the sense that I recieved it quickly and it works perfectly. There are some technological difficulties that cannot be changed, but overall, the product is really nice....
It works great. I expected it to be a little bit smaller but I'm happy with the operation. I'm waiting for someone to make a tiny thumbdrive voice recorder and I'll get that too.
Sony has a schizophrenic approach to their products. Because they are a huge conglomerate that owns a lot of copyrighted material (movies, music, etc.), they are paranoid about you converting any...
I've owned this recorder for several months. It does an excellent job on voice recordings, either for notes or for transcribing to written words. In contrast to the only other reviewer, the...
This model Sony comes either by itself for about $129, or $169 with docking station, recharable NiM batts.and Dragan Naturally ver. 9 speach to text SW. The Recorder is beutifully made, very small...
Have had for about a year now. Works great! Good value for money. I use it to create podcastgs for an Online course Iteach and it's a snap to create a file and upload to the Internet. What...
This recorder does a pretty good job. When it actual records, that is. It eats batteries like there's no tomorrow because it never actually turns itself off from what I can tell. You can put it on...
We wouldn't elect the HP Compaq Presario M2000 the laptop we'd most enjoy cramming into a carry-on bag, but this economical desktop replacement is lighter than it looks, and it performs solidly....
I like this product because it has much better sound quality than all the Ipods out there...I actually had an ipod nano, but then I had to change it because of its WORST possible SOUND QUALITY with...
"Compromised yes, but still a great value for the SQ"
I usually buy these things for their music performance, so that's typically my personal slant on things. And in this regard my wife's S545 doesn't disappoint. Music sounds truly fantastic on this...
Photo gallery:Sony S-Series Walkman Sony had a major success with the launch of the S-Series Walkman in the fall of 2008. The company stepped up with a sleek and compact device that offered a...
Photo gallery:Sony S-Series Walkman Sony had a major success with the launch of the S-Series Walkman in the fall of 2008. The company stepped up with a sleek and compact device that offered a...
I've been recording nature sounds with this recorder for the last year. By mounting it on a tripod, either stand-alone or on a gorilla-pod clinging to a tree branch, I've been able to leave the...
SONY's arrogance--who wants to buy still another type of memory card.
I would not purchase this for one reason. I have dozens of SD cards. I would not want to confuse the issue with SONY's proprietary memory sticks. This is the main reason I have not purchased...
I have waited a lifetime for the ability to make pure, pristine, noise-free recordings outdoors or wherever, and The Sony PCM-D1 delivers that on all fronts. Sure, you have to be careful not to...
This device could be a dream for live recording... except it's absolutely impossible to record anything with the build-in microphes without hearing the noise of your fingers moving the volume...
This item is horrible. When transcribing you would often have to restart the whole thing if you stopped more than a few seconds, it would not hold your place in a given work product. Not only...
The Sony ICD-BM1 is great for the purpose it is designed for- speech! It is ok for recording live music for reference purpose, but has a limited high end (13.5khz). The instructions are available...
When I received my order the software enclosed was the recorder edition NOT the preferred edition promised in the spec sheet. Since you can get the recorder for about 200.00 elsewhere the selling...
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