Sony ICD-SX750 Stereo digital voice recorder....

[Keola Donaghy]

Heather, have you tested the Mac compatibility? I have an ICD-MX20, and in all recording modes it uses Sony's proprietary compression, which cannot be read on any Mac program I'm aware of  (this was based on testing and research 2 years ago when I bought it; perhaps that's changed). When I bought the unit I too was told it was "Mac compatible. The unit will mount on a Mac, but the files are unreadable/unplayable. I've always had to load them on a PC, convert to WAV or MP3, then transfer to my Mac. Perhaps your model is different and allows you to record uncompressed or using a compression scheme that is Mac readable.

Keola

On 2010 ʻAu. 30, at 10:38, Heather Souter wrote:

> I just purchased Sony ICD-SX750 Stereo digital voice recorder to use in field recording.   I got it on sale for about $150CAD and am hoping it is a sound purchase (PC/MAC compatiable, records in Linear PCM in both 22.05 and 44.2Hz....).  I have a good XLR mic and need to purchase a XLR to stereo mini-jack transformer cable.  I am thinking of going with a Hosa but if anyone has a different suggestion, please advise.  
> 
> BTW, thanks to some recent comments on the list about the impact of weird-looking recording gadgets on Eldersilat, I will be keeping my wind sock on my voice recorder at almost all times!  



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Keola Donaghy                                           
Assistant Professor of Hawaiian Studies 
Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikolani             keola at leoki.uhh.hawaii.edu 
University of Hawai'i at Hilo           http://www2.hawaii.edu/~donaghy/

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