Portable Digital Recording Devices, not sure where this post should go.. Options

[prosthetix]

Hiya, at the moment I use an iriver ihp-120 (or h120 as they're now called) which is over 3 years old, its an mp3 player, but in it's time the main reason that I wanted to get that over the ipod was that it has internal recording capability, as in recording mp3s at up to 320kbps/44khz and high quality wavs too (1141k/44khz or something like that) but the software allows 3 hours of recording or 189mb which ever comes first.


now, its still reliable and all, but I was out of curiousity, wondering if there's any other portable digital recording solutions (handheld is a major bonus) out there that records at extremely high quality bitrates???

You may or may not have no idea how handy it is to use that for recording gigs (my own) or even grabbing samples that you hear in the streets or out and about.

Unfortunately the newer iriver models are limited to 128kbps mp3's (Which isn't tooooo bad i guess), not sure on the wav's

[dangt]

Some of the older Sony minidisk players were recordable and ran at 16bit 44.1khz. good quality, especially if you had the nice Sony stereo mic

[prosthetix]

the beauty of this method, is that it encodes to mp3s and wavs on the fly