Ask Engadget: SD and MP3-friendly portable audio recorder?

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AndyB @ Apr 28th 2007 9:09PM

A few points:

- Memory cards are now so cheap that you don't need to be precious about having them all in the same format. At $15 or less for 2G, how big a deal is it to have different ones?

- The Roland (Edirol) R-09 doesn't record to an HD. It records directly to the SD card, and has no built in memory of its own. It's a fantastic unit, worth considering. Anything significantly cheaper is going to sound pretty poor (assuming you're recording music).

- If you want Audio recording gadgets, look on musician sites, not a general gadget site. There's a number of competitors to the Roland - check out units from Marantz, Zoom, M-Audio, Korg, Tascam. They're all around the same price as the Roland though, and the Roland has great reviews.

- If you're only recording speech, check out dictation devices. Again, don't sweat which memory format they have - since memory is too cheap to make a buying decision around.

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