Review on 🎙️ Sony ICD-B16 Portable Digital Voice Recording Device by Gerardo Cibrian

Most microcassette recorders are very battery hungry. This little digital voice recorder runs for hours on a AAA device (plus you don't have to listen to the tape recorder running in the background of your recording). I bought it from a local electronics store that is known for selling radios (at full retail price). I hadn't done any research on digital dictaphones before, so I didn't really know what I was getting into - I only knew that I wanted to record yesterday's lecture because the lecturer was writing for the midterm. It took me about 2 minutes to figure out how to record and play and adjust the mic sensitivity. He recorded the lecture and I sat in the front row and could hear and understand the lecturer if I turned up the volume. However, I have to make an effort to hear what he says with great sensitivity. The sound quality improves significantly when using headphones instead of the built-in speaker. Last night I decided to try something different - I hooked up a small DVR to a Sony AM/FM/TV/WX strap and tried using it. like TiVo for radio. The volume settings needed some tweaking, but it works like magic. I can leave them on for a few hours and then come back and listen to my favorite talk shows (like Art Bell). If I want, I can use the DVR to merge and split the audio tracks - while removing the commercials. This can come in handy as I can also record the TV news while I'm in my evening class and listen to it on the way home after class. Your entire entry will be time and date stamped. When you share an audio track, you still know what time that part was created. If your program is at 12:00 and you started recording at 11:30, you can fast forward 30 minutes and the DVR will display the time (12:00) when the recording you are listening to , have been done. The only downsides to this gadget are the lack of USB audio file transfer (available on the ICD-P28) and voice-activated recording (available on the ICD-B25 for $20 more). your recording time). If I had been in the market and done some research before making this purchase, I probably would have bought the P28 at auction. But - it's still a great little gadget - and I'll have fun with it (although I could get it for a lot less at auction). [What I'd really like - and maybe we'll have one in a year or two - is a radio with a built-in DVR that can be set to record automatically when you're not at home. You choose the frequency (AM/FM/TV), sound quality and on/off time, and the rest is history. Additionally, it would be great to be able to save an MP3 audio file to an SD card so I can pop it into my Tungsten.]