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<font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt">Hi Stephen,<br>
Many people use the Zoom H4n, but my experience recently with one was not the best. It chewed through batteries (even the best ones available) in a very short time, and I had assumed that once folder 1 was full it would automatically start on folder 2, but it didn’t do that; it just stopped without warning. The sound quality was also less than I expected. If you do go with it, set the recording levels manually and monitor them with headphones. <br>
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One of my students (David Sangdong) had his break down in the field after only a short time.<br>
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Randy<br>
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</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Randy J. LaPolla, PhD FAHA<br>
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La Trobe University<br>
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<hr align="CENTER" size="3" width="95%"><b>From: </b>Stephen Morey <<a href="s.morey@latrobe.edu.au">s.morey@latrobe.edu.au</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wed, 1 Jun 2011 22:19:15 +1000<br>
<b>To: </b>"<a href="r-n-l-d@unimelb.edu.au">r-n-l-d@unimelb.edu.au</a>" <<a href="r-n-l-d@unimelb.edu.au">r-n-l-d@unimelb.edu.au</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Solid State recorder<br>
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</span></font><font size="1"><font face="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:8.5pt">Dear RNLD list,<br>
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I need some advice as to what would be the best most up-to-date solid state recorder to buy for around $200-$300 , that would run on batteries. I want to buy one for use in Myanmar by someone who is right now in Bangkok and who needs to buy it in the next one or two days. I don't think there will be access to a laptop download when our colleague is in the field, so we'll need a machine that uses flash cards or some other kind of memory card - preferably something that we can buy several of without spending too much money.<br>
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Many thanks to all<br>
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Stephen Morey<br>
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Research Centre for Linguistic Typology<br>
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La Trobe University<br>
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