$AUD price for edirol digital audio recorder

[Doug Marmion]

Hmm, AUD$895---that's a bit more than the American
price of US$550 (=AUD$723), even allowing for GST and shipping. It might
be better to order direct from the USA where you can find prices as low as
US$439 (=AUD$577).

Something worth keeping in mind is that the memory that comes
with it (a 64MB compactflash card) will only allow around 5 minutes
recording, even at the 'lower quality' setting of 16bit/44.1kHz (mp3 of
course is not worth considering for our work). You need
to buy a 512MB flash card to get 47 minutes, and the 2GB card will get you
188 mins. A quick search indicates that a 1GB compactflash card will cost
up to around AUD$200.

cheers,
doug



On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Sarah Cutfield wrote:

> This seems to be the going price for these recorders:
>
> http://musiclab.com.au/emailcontent/100721.htm
>
>
> Nicholas Thieberger <thien at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> > Could this be what we have been waiting for? The 'R-1 Portable
> > 24-Bit WAVE Recorder & Player' is a small recorder that captures
> > wav files at 24bit/44.1khz, see
> > http://www.edirol.com/products/info/r1.html.
> >
> > It has a USB 2.0 connector for digital output, as well as an
> > optical output for digital streaming.
> >
> > Does anyone have any experience of this?
> >
> > Thanks to Heidi Johnson for pointing this out to me.
> >
> > And Happy New Year!
> >
> > Nick
>