New toys at work. 6 new Tascam hand held recorders arrived today. I've not had a chance to play with them yet, but looking forward to doing so. It is getting increasingly difficult to find good quality and fairly cheap hand held recorders. For years we used Nagra ARES11 devices. Better known as Gin Bottles due to their shape these bullet proof but brilliant recorders have served us well. Following them Olympus produced a very good range 10 years ago, the LS10 and LS11 models. Which were light, simple to operate and small enough to put into your pocket. These were replaced by the LS-P1 which was too small and too fiddly and while it had good sound quality still it wasn't robust. Thus for a number of years we've had to canabalise the 'gin bottles' but we were losing the war, while winning the battles. So we'll see. Three of these will go to the Farming team who spend a lot of time in, well, animal excreta. Watch this space!
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