>On Wed, 31 May 2000 19:06:12 -0400 John Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I think the system on Aiwa portables is the most intuitive of all: on the
> f70, if you slide and hold the record switch fow a few seconds, it'll go
> into record-pause. Then you could set your levels and everything. If you
> slide and release, it'll start recording immediately. Pretty smart, eh?
> -John Lee
I've been researching which portable recorder to buy for ages now. I plan
to use it for sampling ambient natural sound (pretension alert?!). I need
a unit which has both manual and automatic gain recording, which can
also be level-adjusted whilst recording. This rules out all sony machines
I think (I'm a prime candidate for losing stuff because of end-search, any
way) and it looks as if the Aiwa f70 and f80 models are the only ones
which can do this (plus I love the jog-dial feature).
BUt..
..I've read lots of scary reports about them developing problems where
they suddenly start erasing disc content. Obviously this is A Bad Thing.
Admittedly, there doesn't seem to be a machine which is reported as
fault-free, but I was just wondering whether anyone on this list has had
experiences of this. Does the F80 model address any of these problems?
Most of the posts to this site seem to be from Sharp and Sony
owners..maybe there's a good reason for this?!
Aiwa owners! PLease give me a good reason to buy one of these!
Thanks,
SeanB
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