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The rise of cheap, good audio gear has made it harder and harder to figure out where consumer gear ends and the pro stuff begins. Take this wee recorder, for example. It has a 44.1- or 48kHz sample rate, 24-bit resolution, a stereo mic, and records MP3s and WAVs. There's even gain and filters on this thing and a very busy front LCD. Overall, this won't cut it for super-pro recording, but it definitely looks like a great interview recorder or even for grabbing live music. It's $399 and should be available soon.
Roland R-09 Portable MP3/WAV Recorder [BiosMagazine]
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i see audio technology (as well as alot of other stuff) as devices that are quickly heading towards a brick wall. Not in terms of failure, i'm sure plenty of plenty, have lots of uses for it, such as Recording their classes or making notes, concerts, doing interviews, etc. What i mean is, how far can they really take this stuff. Its like video cards, they'll get to the point where they have everything perfected and it will look as real as you or me. After that they'll try and shink it down, and do god knows what else in order to keep the prices up. Same for things like voice recorders. I'm not thinking about what new features will be in the next generation voice recorders, i'm thinking about when a professional level digital audio recorder can be picked up at wallmart for pocket change. will it be tommarow or the next day? of course not, but within the next couple of decades i can see alot more desperate measures needed to be taken in order to keep the prices up.
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