Sony ICDSX46 - 128MB Digital Voice Recorder w/ MP3 Playback

 (26 customer reviews)

I recently needed a voice recorder for my job...so I did an extensive research and decided to buy either Olympus DS-2 or Sony ICD-SX25.

I went to Circuit City to check out the two recorders and found ICD-SX46! I did not know Sony just released the ICD-SX46 when I went to Circuit City. ICD-SX46 has more memory (128MB) than Olympus DS-2 and ICD-SX25 combined.

Olympus DS-2 was way too big (approximately same size and a flip phone that is opened) to be in your pocket and made mostly out of plastic while SX46 is made of aluminum and slimmer in design. I decided to buy the sx46 because of its design and memory capacity.

Well, so far I love this recorder. The recording is very clear and even clearer if you use a headphone to listen to your recordings. The small speaker is also good, but the volume has to be almost all the way up to hear the recordings that had been far away from the microphone.

The aluminum body of this recorder feels sturdy...Read more

I had been searching the internet high and low for a digital voice recorder that would fulfill my needs -- a quality voice recorder AND a suitable device that would record instruments -- staying up late nights, spending hours on live chats comparing products, waiting weeks for e-mails back from companies about their recorders, and then I found this and took a gamble. And I won! This thing is amazing. The body is a little large to be an mp3 player, but, as another poster said, it's all about the recording. The piano recordings sound almost professional, and the internal microphone produces a better quality sound than my $150 external microphone that I plugged into it!!! My only qualm is that you must open a program in order to extract your recording and save it to your computer instead of the recorder simply opening like a drive, but after the first try this becomes a piece of cake. Regardless, this recorder packs many helpful features and is extremely flexible in different...Read more

I have had this for a year now. The unit itself is pretty high quality. Many options. The problem is the software. The digital voice editor software that comes with it is very limited and never was great. But, what's worst of all is you need to keep the disk with you and not lose it, because if the software has a glitch (like mine just did) and you are on the road, and you don't have the disk, you cannot hope to find the software to re-download to reinstall. Sony only posts updates to it, as if the software itself here was some valuable product to protect. It's a little proprietary player that also happens to be the ONLY way you can transfer the files to your computer. So, if it stops working, and you don't have disk, you are screwed. This is unacceptable in this day and age. It's not like ANYONE in the world would want to download and use this software for anything other than if you were using one of these units. It's essentially barely more than the driver you need to...Read more