Good small recorders by Olympus and Panasonic

Vitaliy_Kiselev

If you need something small, to always have with you) and affordable you can look at this guys:

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Olympus DM-620

Record both high bitrate MP3 and PCM WAV, 3 mikes
External input
From $85 refurbished - https://www.amazon.com/Olympus-142665-DM-620-Voice-Recorder/dp/B004S561V0/

Panasonic RR-XR800

Record both high bitrate MP3 and PCM WAV
Two very high quality Panasonic mikes
External input
From $98 new - https://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-RR-XR800-Personal-Digital-Recorder/dp/B004OA7QXG/

rawmeyn

How do they compare to the Zoom H1?

Vitaliy_Kiselev

How do they compare to the Zoom H1?

Compare in what?

They are smaller and look much more casual to people :-)

rawmeyn

Compare in sound quality ;)

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Compare in sound quality ;)

Again, how exactly compare?

With their own mikes? External mikes?

For small mike capsules Panasonic are considered among best and they are used by some top lav brands.

For stereo separation they are worse due to mike arrangement.

Again, it is small little brothers. That have huge use now, as today almost perfect free speech to text exist.

rawmeyn

Thanks a lot for the information. Yes, I was curious about their own mics as well as external.

LOM

can you name free speech to text app?

Vitaliy_Kiselev

I can and very good one, as you can use Google recognition :-)

LOM

virtual audio cable does work with google speech api. Tnx for the tip.