Buy Used/3rdParty More product information	Sony TCM-200DV Cassette Recorder with Dual Power Source List Price: $34.99    Our Price: $29.99 You Save: 14% Manufacturer: Sony MPN: TCM-200DV Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Features: Up to 25 Hours of Battery Life Double Recording Time - normal or half-normal speed Voice Operated Recording Playback Speed Control - +30% or -15% External Microphone Jack
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Product Description Sony's TCM-200DV cassette recorder offers a multitude of features which make it an excellent choice for a cassette voice recorder. The two channel, one track recorder promises accurate recording. For recording ease, Sony has installed double recording time and voice operated recording. The double recording time gives you the option of recording at a standard speed, or at half the standard speed, essentially giving you double the recording space. With voice operated record, you no longer have to worry about constantly shutting off and switching on the record button; with the first hint of sound, the TCM-200DV will begin recording. Sony's Sony-Matic automatic recording level control will keep your recordings at one constant level. Play-back editing or transcribing becomes more useful with this feature. If the internal microphone doesn't support your recording needs, simply plug in an external mic into the mic jack. Customer Reviews Surprisingly important in making digital samples I am in charge of fixing the horrible distortions that happen in converting low-sample-rate recordings of poetry readings from a camera to MP3 (terrible kazoo buzzing noise). I discovered that good old analog tape, via an attenuating patchcord (-60db), convert very smoothly, and the PCM/16-bit 11khz audio format even rolls off tape hiss and keeps a beautiful natural tone. Using an electret microphone outboard also gets rid of the tape machine motor noise. Anyway, I got this TCM-200DV at Target on sale for $25 to back up the garage-sale recorder I was using. The first wonderful surprise was that you can plug a common external-powered PC condenser mic straight in! Sony says they supply the bias, and they aren't fooling. The level is quite sensitive too; excellent for poetry at 1-2 ft distance, so 'pops' are avoided. The sound is brilliant, even at the half-speed. I would have gladly traded that for a tape counter. I am worried about how all the switches dealing with the tape speed will age, but I'll keep the thing in a bag to avoid dust. The 25-hr batt life is cool. Analog recordings of speaking events are very important at this time, since the true 24-bit//96khz PCM recorders needed to avoid conversion distortions are still very expensive. This recorder does a super job for voice, and is a great feed to the PC for digital recording. If I had to make it perfect (albeit for a little more money), I would drop the mutlispeed, add a counter, and add a pop-up microphone wand with mechanical isolation from vibrations (a PC mic on folded fleece suffices now). A side-monitor (2 earphone plugs) would be nice too. Thanks for saving my poetry group from hellacious distant camera audio recordings, Sony! Price is right This is a nice little recorder and the price is right. I got it for my folks because they wanted to be able to record my niece and nephew and because the new digital technology was a little overwhelming. This is a very sturdy little player/recorder, easy to use, and great if you still have cassettes lying around. Presumed Sony quality, harder to find features So far I have no reason to think this is not the high Sony quality we are used to. And the price was very reasonable. The 15/16ths IPS speed has gotten hard to find; Radio Shack no longer stocks them, so the quick local in-person pickup of a recorder that does half speed is gone; on-line seems to be the way to go. This recorder has it. When my clients sent me half-speed tapes and my old recorder that had this capability failed, I had to hustle to find this one. The machine's failure to have a head-adjustment hole in the case is one shortcoming, hence my four rather than five rating. Many other makes and models do have this; others I have to modify with a small saw to give me this adjustment ability, which can make a large difference in playback quality (typically when the machine a tape was recorded on is slightly differently aligned than the playback machine). The "dual power source" capability being highlighted I find "curious," because it seems to me that DC (battery) or AC (AC-to-DC adapter) capability is a standard feature. It may be becoming less standard than we have gotten used to, though, particularly in the very small digital recorders, which are the wave of the future (and present), which I assume is why Radio Shack's (as a "for instance") line of cassette recorders is dwindling, as their line of digital recorders grows. So, on-line shopping and buying is the way to go. And maybe buy an extra item or two to put "into inventory" for when the machine you're using fails and you don't want a one or two-day delay in your work schedule while you wait for the UPS or FedEx truck to arrive.

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