 Microphone for Zaurus 5500, Where to buy |
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 Sep 30 2004, 05:50 AM
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I just bought a high quality miniature electret microphone on ebay from a supplier called microphonics who has a number of these listed.
It seems to work fine on my Zaurus 5500. Price is competitive. Tip: ebay has a feature that enables searching by seller. |
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Oct 26 2004, 03:23 AM
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Interesting, what sound quality / levels of noise do you achieve with that? I always thought a good microphone wasn't really worth it since the Z's A/D converter is not exactly a 112dB job. It would be brilliant if you could post a recording somewhere.
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Oct 28 2004, 02:51 AM
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That's a fair point about dynamic range. The Z5500 has a 16 bit A/D converter, which would only give 48 db dynamic range compared to 72db that you might get from 24 bit technology.
But hey, the microphone only cost about £10 and sounds great for speech. I'll try to attach an audio clip to this post.
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Oct 28 2004, 06:53 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 366 Joined: 4-November 03 From: Slovakia Member No.: 850 |
It does sound better than I expected. I use my headphones for the occasional recording (I simply take the ear bud and talk into it). They work OK for voice but I was at a concert recently - trying to record a particular piano riff - and while nearby noises (coughing & talking) were picked up very well, the actual music was barely recorded at all. The recording was completely different from what I heard with my ears (the music sounded loud & clear to my bare ears). I was quite surprised. Specialised tools are hard to beat, I guess.
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Oct 30 2004, 04:39 PM
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What is the Ebay seller ID for microphonics? I can't find them (on ebay.co.uk). Thx.
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Oct 30 2004, 04:52 PM
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The ebay seller ID is microphonics.
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Aug 3 2006, 12:38 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 668 Joined: 3-December 03 From: US Member No.: 1,034 |
I recently bought the microphonic black microphone for my C1000
from ebay. My take on it .... Its not the best quality microphone (you can't expect that much in such a small package). The one positive thing is it goes well with the black exterior of the zaurus and looks like a small antenna on a "Zaurus phone"  I wanted to record my baby's sounds and I needed to keep my zaurus away from her - since if she sees it in front of her face - she starts screaming for it - and I didn't really want to record screaming sounds  , I just wanted her normal voice sounds as she cooed and spoke strange gibberish in the mornings.But keeping the zaurus a few feet away (4 feet) doesn't record very well. Instead if its near your face (like < 2ft), then the sound is pretty reasonable (mono), provided you adjust the gain to high on the sound recorder settings. Its an OK quality microphone - I had thought about buying the Sony DSP Stereo Micmic but that would have been a waste of money since the Zaurus only record in mono. Anybody esle had any better experiences with a mini microphone for the zaurus ? |
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