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Hi all this is just a unique product. I gifted it to my mom for her birthday.Small compact , Excellent quality of sound as well as recording.This product is up to the expectations as given in the description.
Trouble is, the battery life is good for only a tiny fraction of that. And that's the big problem. This otherwise terrific product claims to be able to record 56 hours. It seems that every time I go to use the thing, the battery is dead.
I also purchased the Sony foot pedal with digital voice editor software. I can send this stuff by e-mail or by "CITRIX" based file transfer programs ([.].). I liked digital but it really was not versatile enough (format, etc). I paid about $[.]. I can also use the recorder as a "flash drive" and transport word, excel, etc. for mine and it does everything that a system costing several hundred does. Also photos and anything else you would put on a flash drive.
What I discovered was that MP3 based dictation answered all of my needs - dictation, conference recording, hearing recording (including hearings where a witness was testifying over a speakerphone). The small speaker on the recorder is not really loud but I assume that it is meant to hold up to your ear so that you can "discretely" listen to what you have dictated. With earphones, the sound of music is good. I practice law and had tried digital recording with the older Olympus DSS 30. The MP3 format is universal. I relied mainly on mini-cassette dictation but needed a better system without spending 300-400 + on a system. I also use "Dragon Naturally Speaking" and after some research decided to try the Sony UX 70 (a lighter version of the UX 80).
I know, because I have tried them.
Ask salesman to check the price on the cash register using barcode. It records even better if you directly feed audio in to microphone input and selecting it as "LINE IN" using Audio Line Out of other system. May be SONY is comming up with a better new model than this one, soon. It is too small to begin with. I was surprised by this price as compared to what I have seen on the Internet. Recording is slightly better for low frequencies if I record with external stereo microphone SONY ECM-DS30P ($49.99). Anyway I wanted it so I purchased it and I am glad I did. If the price ends with xx.x9 then it is a current production item.
A slightly larger model will also have better performance built-in microphones like they have on other models. Don't be fooled by the sticker price on the box. It records very well with internal microphones. I purchased two of the ICD-UX80. Although it can safely record 2 hours of stereo music at 192Kb/sec on a fresh AAA alkaline battery I wish SONY had designed it for AA alkaline battery which has two and half times more energy than AAA and would have given recording time of more that 5 hours on one stretch. So what if it gets little bigger/thicker in size.
I hope they design their new model using AA batteries. Store salesman told me that this product is being obsoleted, anything in the store with the price ending with xx.X7 is obsoleted. wanted stereo MP3 recorder for recording live music and recording my own practice music when I am playing myself. One to give as a gift to a music lover friend of mine. I am all happy with this device. I purchased it from "SONY STYLE" store for $99.97.
My computer's built-in mic pics up the noise from the on-board fan, etc. but from a digital one. USB direct plug to go into my Mac. Lots of drive space for the files. so I decided to get a compact voice recorder.The SONY was pretty much what I was looking for as far as features and price. Also if you speak too closely to the mic, you will get "pop" -- when you pronounce your "P"'s.
I have fairly large hands and it is sometimes clumsy to navigate the menus with such small buttons. Good Amazon price. Easy to read menus.CONS: Small, compact size. Audio quality was not quite what I expected -- even in the highest recording quality.
There is a fair amount of "hiss". something I would expect from an analogue voice recorder. I purchased the Sony ICDUX80 Digital Voice Recorder mainly to do voice-over work for the videos I make for YouTube. Stereo mp3 files.
plus I have always had great success with SONY equipment. Here are some of mike Pros & Cons:PROS: Small, compact and easy to carry in a shirt pocket. I have a tendency to over-enunciate when I do my voice-overs, so I had to learn to back off the mic a bit so as not to over-drive the mics.All in all, I would give the Sony ICDUX80 Digital Voice Recorder 4 Stars
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