Sony ICD-UX71RED Digital Voice Recorder with 1GB Flash Memory

Have had this recorder for about 9 months. It has been excellent for everything we need - primarily for recording meetings. Battery life is long, sound quality and gain are excellent, and the built-in USB connection makes it a breeze to transfer files to a computer or put on CD. I have used it it to easily dump the files to both a PC and a Mac (via iTunes) and it couldn't be easier. Very pleased.

I bought this for recording lectures and it works well. I've tested it from various areas in large lecture halls and it works best from the first few rows. It does pick up a lot of side noise like people coughing etc which can be annoying, but finding the right settings makes a big difference.

The small buttons are fine for me, but I can see how large fingers might have a problem with them. It has great battery life and plenty of storage capacity.

Aesthetically it is very nice and I love the color!

The usb makes it extremely easy to use and it works well with my mac without needing software or cables. That was the biggest selling point for me.

I searched everywhere for a mac compatible voice recorder. Even called the Apple Store. All I could find that was reasonably priced was this one. And it's worked out really well. I can record, download to my Mac and then put it on my ipod. I can listen through stereo speakers in it's dock. I can listen in my car with an adapter for the ipod that fits into the cassette deck. I haven't tried to burn a cd yet.

I bought it mostly to use during chorale rehearsals. I sing in a local community chorale. I record the rehearsals and now can use what we sang to practice. The sound quality in the recorder really good.

My learning curve was a little high and I had to take the time to read the manual carefully. I became really frustrated for awhile because it was almost impossible to read the display window. Then a friend showed me how to take the plastic cover off the face of the display window. I can't believe I was so dense! Then I could see the display...Read more