44 of 45 people found the following review helpful
No improvement on built-in mic,
November 17, 2004 Jeffrey M. Keuning (Indiana) - See all my reviews
I purchased this along with the Olympus DS-330 digital voice recorder. The Sony microphone does not perform badly, just not any better than the built-in microphone on the Olympus.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
why do these require battery,
June 28, 2006 E.B. Sozer (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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I did not like the fact that this microphone needs a hard to find battery which is not included in the box it was sold.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS MICROPHONE,
September 23, 2009 Gregory T. Ourada "ouradaj" (Atlanta, Georgia United States) - See all my reviews
DO NOT BUY THIS MICROPHONE IF YOU CARE ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE ACTUALLY RECORDING A SESSION OR NOT. Steer clear!!! These mikes might look great, but of what use are they when they need a battery and there is no low battery indicator? There is absolutely no way to know that you're not getting a recording until you try to play something back and there's nothing there or it's faint sounding. What a useless microphone!! You also have to turn the microphone on and off on the bottom which is difficult to do because of the switch design and if you forget to turn it off, you'll run your battery down. Arrh!! This is the worst waste of money of my whole life... Thankfully, I only bought two, and they are not terribly expensive.
As a court repoorter, I'm always looking for new equipment and thought I would try these mikes for court as they looked low key and would be a nice addition to my microphone stable. I didn't see in the specs that they also require batteries (which by the...Read more
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