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 enlarge | Brand: Sony
Category: CE
List Price: $34.99
Buy New: $25.12
You Save: $9.87 (28%)
New (35) Used (2) Refurbished (1) from $25.01
Avg. Customer Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 1172
Color: BLACK
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Battery: 2 AA
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 1.4 x 3.4 x 4.6
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: TCM-200DV
Model: TCM-200DV
UPC: 027242607736
EAN: 0027242607736
ASIN: B00008WIX3
Availability: Usually ships in 3-4 business days
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Great Experienc March 9, 2006
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
This item is indeed great for recording class room lecture which am presently using it for.
 sony recorder February 20, 2006
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
This unit is good at taping off another audio source, either using the external microphone or a direct wire connection. It picks up even in a crowded lecture hall. Very good recorder...this is my second one I have owned.
Surprisingly important in making digital samples January 26, 2006
19 out of 21 found this review helpful
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 December 2, 2005
25 out of 27 found this review helpful
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 October 14, 2005
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
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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