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Title: Portable sound recorder overview chart (sticky this?)
Post by: digifish_music on December 31, 2008, 04:21:27 PM: This is probably the most comprehensive chart I have found...

1. Sweetwater comparison chart - US based (http://www.sweetwater.com/feature/recorders/chart.php)

2. Wingfield Audio comparison chart - US based (http://www.wingfieldaudio.com/compare-portable-recorders.html) & has audio examples (http://www.wingfieldaudio.com/portable-recorder-sound-samples.html) from each recorder.

3. Transom tools column - US Based (http://transom.org/topics/tools/features/gear-guide//)

Some more thanks to sunjan...

5. Liberman Sound - US based (http://www.libermansound.com/technotes/ts104.php)

6. Corporate Talk Radio - US based (http://www.corporatetalkradio.com/pdr.html)

7. O'Reilly Media - US based (http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/audio/portable-recorder-comparison/)

digifish
Title: Re: Portable sound recorder overview chart (sticky this?)
Post by: boojum on December 31, 2008, 05:20:16 PM: You are a shopper. 8)
Title: Re: Portable sound recorder overview chart (sticky this?)
Post by: digifish_music on December 31, 2008, 08:17:25 PM: Quote from: boojum on December 31, 2008, 05:20:16 PM
You are a shopper. 8)

I like to browse, always looking for the best bang for the $$$ :)
Title: Re: Portable sound recorder overview chart (sticky this?)
Post by: grtphl on January 01, 2009, 03:18:11 AM: Here's screen-captures of the pages, 2008-01-01, for offline reference. The file-sizes were too big to upload as attachments. The couple free image-hosts I tried resized the images or diminished the quality, making the text more difficult to read. So these are download links to the unscaled and 'clearer' image files, not direct links to the images themselves.

Picture01 (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ndtd1czwz1z)
Picture02 (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mzhmmjgeogn)
Title: Re: Portable sound recorder overview chart (sticky this?)
Post by: chris319 on January 01, 2009, 04:16:31 AM: No mention of anything Fostex.
Title: Re: Portable sound recorder overview chart (sticky this?)
Post by: setboy on January 01, 2009, 04:43:35 AM: Quote from: chris319 on January 01, 2009, 04:16:31 AM
No mention of anything Fostex.

yeah, that's what i was about to say.
Title: Re: Portable sound recorder overview chart (sticky this?)
Post by: sunjan on January 01, 2009, 03:59:36 PM: Quote from: root_ on January 01, 2009, 03:18:11 AM
Here's screen-captures of the pages, 2008-01-01, for offline reference.

Neat! I guess that's 2009, right?
Title: Re: Portable sound recorder overview chart (sticky this?)
Post by: grtphl on January 01, 2009, 04:04:07 PM: Quote from: sunjan on January 01, 2009, 03:59:36 PM
Quote from: root_ on January 01, 2009, 03:18:11 AM
Here's screen-captures of the pages, 2008-01-01, for offline reference.

Neat! I guess that's 2009, right?
Yeah. I make this sort of mistake every year around this time.
Title: Re: Portable sound recorder overview chart (sticky this?)
Post by: leehookem on January 01, 2009, 11:18:02 PM: nice find
Title: Re: Portable sound recorder overview chart (sticky this?)
Post by: Audioslaved on January 08, 2009, 12:41:58 AM: Thank you for posting those charts! Will definitely come in handy while I'm shopping around.
Title: Re: Portable sound recorder overview chart (sticky this?)
Post by: 69mako on January 08, 2009, 04:17:39 AM: Thanks! Not in the market, but it's still nice to have a bunch of them lined up to compare.

Mako
Title: Re: Portable sound recorder overview chart (sticky this?)
Post by: flintstone on January 13, 2009, 01:17:46 PM: Here's another chart listing specifications for many small recorders.
The chart was updated in November 2008.

http://www.forum-studiospares.com/showpost.php?s=c0ffb980b6bd9b20af549ea4dcb21645&p=447&postcount=3

or http://tinyurl.com/7upxax

Flintstone
Title: Re: Portable sound recorder overview chart (sticky this?)
Post by: digifish_music on January 13, 2009, 07:47:29 PM: Quote from: flintstone on January 13, 2009, 01:17:46 PM
Here's another chart listing specifications for many small recorders.
The chart was updated in November 2008.

http://www.forum-studiospares.com/showpost.php?s=c0ffb980b6bd9b20af549ea4dcb21645&p=447&postcount=3

or http://tinyurl.com/7upxax

Flintstone

Thanks, added
Title: Re: Portable sound recorder overview chart (sticky this?)
Post by: digifish_music on March 07, 2009, 05:55:38 AM: Another one...

http://www.transom.org/tools/recording_interviewing/200703_recorder_reviews/
Title: Re: Portable sound recorder overview chart (sticky this?)
Post by: jnorman34 on March 09, 2009, 05:20:15 PM: nothing about the higher end units such as sonosax and nagra. 4 channel options are quite limited...
Title: Re: Portable sound recorder overview chart (sticky this?)
Post by: sunjan on March 09, 2009, 06:04:08 PM: Quote from: jnorman34 on March 09, 2009, 05:20:15 PM
nothing about the higher end units such as sonosax and nagra. 4 channel options are quite limited...

Here are a few that go all the way to the $$$$ units. Sorry if any of them has been posted before:
http://www.libermansound.com/technotes/ts104.php
http://www.corporatetalkradio.com/pdr.html
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/audio/portable-recorder-comparison/
Title: Re: Portable sound recorder overview chart (sticky this?)
Post by: digifish_music on March 24, 2009, 07:57:31 AM: Quote from: sunjan on March 09, 2009, 06:04:08 PM
Quote from: jnorman34 on March 09, 2009, 05:20:15 PM
nothing about the higher end units such as sonosax and nagra. 4 channel options are quite limited...

Here are a few that go all the way to the $$$$ units. Sorry if any of them has been posted before:
http://www.libermansound.com/technotes/ts104.php
http://www.corporatetalkradio.com/pdr.html
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/audio/portable-recorder-comparison/

Added to the pile thanks sunjan :)
Title: Re: Portable sound recorder overview chart (sticky this?)
Post by: borjam on February 26, 2013, 05:09:29 AM: I think this link belongs here. It's Avisoft's comparison of microphone input noise levels.

http://www.avisoft.com/recordertests.htm
Title: Re: Portable sound recorder overview chart (sticky this?)
Post by: Brian Skalinder on March 02, 2013, 11:15:21 AM: Added a link to this forum's Readme1st sticky post some time ago, but forgot to mention it here.