Lx Field & Lab gear

[Vincent de Rooij]

Hi Dan,

No, you didn't miss this.
I would be interested to know as well.

If you look at the hardware components of the Archos, you'll see that it's really a rather basic portable computer without cd or floppy drives. So, working with the Archos in the tropics should be equally difficult/easy as working  with a laptop computer (main problems: dust and/or humidity).

Vincent

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Dan Everett [mailto:Dan.Everett at man.ac.uk]
Sent:	maandag 30 september 2002 19:04
To:	Vincent de Rooij
Cc:	LINGANTH at galileo.cc.rochester.edu
Subject:	Re: Lx Field & Lab gear

Does anyone know how the Archos recorder work in the tropics? (Perhaps I
missed this.)

Thanks,

Dan


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Daniel L. Everett
Professor of Phonetics and Phonology
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester, UK
M13 9PL
dan.everett at man.ac.uk
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Vincent de Rooij wrote:

> Hi Alexandra (or Misty)
>
> Thanks for the info on the Archos MP3 recorder. Sounds great!
>
> I checked the Archos website < http://www.archos.com > and read several
> reviews on the web. The overall judgement is very positive. I also found out
> that there is an active group of software engineers working on enhancements
> of the Archos software < http://rockbox.haxx.se/ >. It seems that one of the
> things they added is a resume funtion for recording! (and playback), see <
> http://rockbox.haxx.se/download/rockbox-1.3-notes.txt > under 'Resume'.
>
> Could you tell a bit more on how the recording quality of the Archos
> compares to the quality of other recording technologies (e.g. DAT, HDD
> recording in .wav format)?
>
> And a second question: considering that the Archos records directly on HDD,
> is it possible to record when the device is 'in motion' (holding/carrying it while
> walking around for instance)?
>
> thanks in advance for your reaction
>
> vincent de rooij
> dept. of sociology & Anthropology
> university of amsterdam
>
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:49:53 -0700, Alexandra Jaffe <ajaffe at csulb.edu> wrote:
>
> >In response to Richard's query, I can report good experiences with the
> >ARCHOS MP3 recorder, which I used this past summer for fieldwork. (...) The
> recording quality is very good with the external
> >microphone.
> >
> (...)
>
>