Lossless Recording Also, please!

[Jazz57]

To go along with all the requests for lossless playback, don't forget lossless recording.

Many folks are using their MiniDiscs/Walkman Pro to record in the field. Imagine being able to record 30 hours of true CD quality sound on the iAudio -- a unit the size of a casette box!

I did some tests using the M3 in 320kbps mode, and even then high frequencies (above 16K) are truncated and there is occasional weirdness with pure tones (I was trying to do a harmonic distortion test when I noticed this). I agree no one listens to sine waves for fun, but it would be nice to know one has a prestine signal when recording. Why muck it up with MP3 encoding if you *only* need a couple hours of recording time?

By the way, so far so good -- my recording tests show the M3 has the potential for high quality recording from the line input. Distortion is low (aside from the MP3 weirdness noted above) and signal-to-Noise is around 80dB. I'll write up a full review soon.

[spinthelights]

Thanks for the info! I've used my M3 to record many times, but I'm glad someone is taking the time to really test it. I'm looking forward to the review.

[el-ztevo]

Mmm. I'll just add my support for lossless recording and scuttle off.

[fredthetree]

lossless recording would be fantastic

[larry_llama]

yes please! slaughter all of the competition by being the first to put this in a pocket sized recorder. i'll buy two if you can make it happen!

[vlad_tepes_drac]

ooo im up for this request! Sounds very interesting, and as others, ill be looking forward to your review!

[encosion]

yeah ..this is vital ..the only thing stopping me from purchase is lossless recording capabilities { and maybe capacity } ..i currently own a neuros 80Gb player which offers WAV recording up to 48khz, however it's pretty bulky and development - though the firmware has recently gone open source - is slow ..and the build quality isn't quiet as sound as i would like... .. .