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Title: Noisy, weak, and horrible.
Review: I read the bad review and thought maybe the guy hadn't set things right. I made sure I had the best settings --- quality 7, 48 KHZ sampling, stereo, source "line in", and made sure the gain was set high. The results still sound like crap: recording my wife's choir from about 15 feet away, there was lot's of noise and the signal was very weak so you had to turn the volume up to the highest level to hear anything (which makes the noise all the louder). It might be that the line-in on my Archos Jukebox Recorder is bad/noisy, but anyway you're not going to get anything decent with this. In fact, except for the hard-drive noise, the built-in Archos mic sounds much better than this (can even get it to record in Stereo if you use Rockbox). Summary: do not buy this; instead record with a DAT or minidisc (or good PC soundcard) and good mic, or be content with the built in mic which actually isn't that bad in my opinion.
