Sony ICDB300 - 64MB Digital Voice Recorder

I needed a new voice recorder and decided to try sony since it is usually a good name. Unfortunately this unit is junk. It is poorly designed, the erase button is where the record button should be and the record button requires you to look at the unit to find it every time since there is no tactile feel to it. Recording is absolutely silly, whoever designed this unit clearly never tested it. You have to find the record button by looking at it, press record then when you press record to stop it only pauses so you wind up with a long message. If you press the big stop button by the record button it plays your message back to you which is very annoying. You have to press record then press this tiny stop button in between the forward/reverse buttons. It is unbelievably poorly designed. There is no way to use it for notes without becomming frustrated. Then when you do press the tiny stop button instead of the big stop button it pauses for 3 seconds before it beeps to acknowlege you stopped...Read more

I bought this item to record speakers at a convention. The playback is not as clear as I had hoped. I am disappointed in the product.

What is the use of owning a digital recorder if it comes with more "hiss" than a tape? This unit has VERY loud background noise and as stated earlier...won't erase individual files.