Great audio quality but lacks full feature set of previous flagship recorders
In most respects it is a well feature-laden digital audio recorder, quite diminutive too for easiest portability, but it suffers a few omissions from previous Sony flagship models. Inexplicably, they've taken away some extremely convenient features normally present, regarding display modes and editing in recorder. They only show elapsed time, no longer along with time remaining in a file or date or time stamp as the file plays. Worst still, in regard to editing, they have done away with the overwrite and add-to-end functions. You cannot change the file on the fly anymore - you'd have to record a new file from the start to replace it with new changes. Very inconvenient. I find I edit often and sorely miss that feature, hence my giving this otherwise sonically impressive audio recorder only three stars rather than five. It doesn't combine files either. The major forte for this unit is its swing in/out mikes (ab to xy positions of stereo spatiality) and six LPCM modes. I still recommend it, even though it is not with everything wanted.
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