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Review on ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Sony ICD-SX712 Digital Voice Recorder with Flash Memory by Erik Gerber

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Amazing audio recording; unsafe stand mounting

I like this device. I bought it to use with the Dragon transcription software. For that, it works well except when I'm shooting without a headset in a noisy car. (I know, yes!) I've also used it to record public gatherings without taking handwritten notes. What amazes me is how clearly the "encounter sceneโ€ picks up voices even from afar, in a crowd, even when hidden in my purse! He was also excellent at recording the wedding singer's voice from a pew halfway into the church. Very economical battery consumption. Connecting to a speaker improves playback by a million percent compared to built-in playback. Dragging and dropping files to my computer is very easy. One downside: the tripod mount is on the included snap-on plastic stand, not on the recorder itself, and the plastic stand doesn't attach very securely to the recorder. I just bought a mini gorillapod tripod for it and the recorder likes to pop out of the stand when I level the tripod.

Pros
  • weight
Cons
  • shaky