🎙️ RCA RP5120 256MB USB Digital Voice Recorder with 104 Hours of Recording Capacity Review

The system will not let me improve my star rating - very poor. My first review was negative. I thought that the voice recorder had too low a sensitivity for recording lectures. Later I read the manual more closely and found the CONF setting. Now record loud and clear outdoors! I recommend this device, ignore the star rating I gave it before.

I bought three of these units with two channel wireless microphones for my local history club to help with oral history telling. For this purpose, the recorder works very well with my rather expensive two-channel Azden camcorder microphone system. To date I have not found a compatible dual channel microphone system at a price I would be willing to sacrifice three for. I am still searching. As for the PD5120 itself, I have three caveats that have kept me from giving a full five stars: 1. The…

The recorder has many nice functions and is easy to use. I like the price and the fact that it can be connected to a computer (the most important aspect for me). However, file transfers eventually stalled and I got "Bad File Format" errors that prevented me from listening to the recordings. files or ever be able to transfer them again. Support said I should reformat the registrar. Files were lost this way (although I was sometimes able to continue listening to recordings on the recorder, once…