Look what came in the mail today -
It's a Tascam DR-03 - said by some to be the same as the Teac VR-10 - the specs do look identical -
yet others say the DR-03 internal mics are "crappy".
So I had to to do a side-by-side test -
I put on a CD that I had been using for SQ test for years -
"The Lazarus Heart" by Sting from the CD "...Nothing Like the Sun"
Set this Tascam DR-03 and my well used Teac VR-10 side-by-side in front of my home audio system - set the volume so that it was just loud - but not uncomfortable
set the manual record levels to the same - so that it was moving the meter - but safely under the peak.
Started both recorders and then started the CD a few seconds later so that there would be a few seconds of the "silence" of my room.
and recorded less than 2 mins of the beginning of track.
I had done a similar test back in
Post #27but I re-did the VR-10 so that it was literally recording side-by-side.
Teac VR-10 Test sample
Download (2.57MB)Tascam DR-03 Test sample
Download (2.54MB)I leave it for you to judge for yourselves
Both Internal mics - 24bit 48kHz L-PCM originals > flac8 >44.1kHz vbr3 +MP3gain.