Bub99 said:
Important issues to consider and review...
Bub99, your post was nicely done (and the links to reviews are good to have, too). I wanted to weigh in and say I have an Edirol R-09 and I use it constantly, and it's great for me. For music, I use it mostly for learning tunes, hearing how something sounds, etc., not for trying to make top-quality recordings. And it's perfect for that, easy to use, light, small, etc. I also use it practically every day at work (technical writing) for recording meetings and discussions of technical topics. It's good for that, too, much better than the usual cheesy voice recorder.
I just wanted to add one thing to Bub99's list of important issues, though, mainly with regard to the "cadillac," the Sony PCM-D1. That one doesn't appear to do mp3 recording, and while that might make it look like a more serious piece of recording hardware, I wanted to say that I use mp3
a lot, even for music. The quality is just fine for the kind of thing I mentioned above (e.g., rehearsals, getting down a tune from someone, etc.), and the files are
much smaller. You don't want to have to rip everything from WAV to mp3.
