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Cassette replacements

dkalley said:
As for the DR-05s, there are quite a few on eBay at $60 or less, new or more feature laden recorders are overkill. There are other brands and models out there that are similar.

I have never encountered digital recorders that have been made "defective by design", they capture up to 24bit/96kHz now and the frequency range of a microphone around 20- 20k Hz. I previously used mine as part of a stealth audio recording rig with external power and microphones and had great results. The preamps on these cheaper ones aren't great, but they aren't bad. I am sure there are low resolution digital dictation recorders that do not capture well at all tho. But they may be fine for this application also.
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They don't seem to have a record jack on them - or did I miss it?

The Sony and a few others have a couple of 3.5mm jacks for record/playback which suits old computer requirements, as well as volume control to set the level.
 
cj7hawk said:
They don't seem to have a record jack on them - or did I miss it?

The Sony and a few others have a couple of 3.5mm jacks for record/playback which suits old computer requirements, as well as volume control to set the level.
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it has a 3.5mm input, it provides a low voltage plug in power to the mics which needs to be disabled for computer use. I believe most field recorders do.
 
cj7hawk said:
Do you know how they limited it? Was it band limited, or frequency limited? Added distortion? Gaps in playback? Reduction of information in the signal?
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I really couldn't tell. I remember purchasing one and finding that it simply didn't work correctly.
Then I dug into that model and found documentation showing that the audio from the input jack was purposely limited to "prevent piracy". I also encountered many other people having the same issue.

Now the last time I looked at these was many years ago. Things might have changed by now.
 
For years now, my brother has used some old standard windows sound recorder/playback software, nowadays on Win.XP, for .wav storage and playback on his Newbear 77-68s.
He uses Hyperterminal these days to save and restore Ascii HEX (usually S19 type format) files. ( I generate .s19 files of software I develop for him and he loads these via Hyperterminal ).
Here is a pic of one of his machines at a small retro event recently...Newbear-77-68.png
 
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