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Hi Linda, I have just purchased an Olympus DM-1 DSS & MP3 PLAYER - I decided to go with this as it was much cheaper, but has more memory (so a longer recording time). I've only just started using this for interviews. I have an external microphone, and so far the sound quality has been very good. It also works with an Olympus universal footswitch - making for happy transcribing. We have had a few glitches getting the footswitch to work, but this might have nothing to do with the footswitch, and more to do with a problem on the computer we are setting it up on. The digital files are quite large, and even with zipping are probably quite a challenge for most email systems - although I'm sure writing to a cd would work well to overcome this. I'm enjoying having the files in a digital format so far - they are easy to back up, I have a copy and my transcriber has a copy, which means I can easily listen back to the interviews whilst I'm working on field notes whilst the files are being transcribed. Being able to instantly jump to different parts of the recording instantly has been very useful too. The recorder also works as a mass storage device - so very handy for moving my Nvivo/N6 projects between computers (particularly as I don't have a cd writer). I haven't really found any downsides to it yet - but as I mentioned, it is early days - I would be interested to hear if others have had any difficulties... Rebekah Rebekah Pratt Research Fellow School of Clinical Sciences and Community Health - General Practice The University of Edinburgh 20 West Richmond Street Edinburgh, EH8 9DX Tel: 0131 651 4141 [log in to unmask] http://www.chs.med.ed.ac.uk/gp/ -----Original Message----- From: qual-software [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Linda Jones Sent: 26 May 2004 11:13 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Question re. microphones I am currently investigating this issue as well and have found it really difficult to get relevant information for qualitative researchers. I'm sure commercial market research organisations will have the info, but not necessarily publish it on the net. We are looking at changing to Olympus AS300 digital recorders, so if any of the group has views on this as well, particularly the downsides, I would be grateful. Linda Jones Research Associate University of Nottingham School of Nursing B5/B49 Medical School Queen's Medical Centre Nottingham NG7 2UH 0115 9249924 ext 35084 [log in to unmask] This message has been scanned but we cannot guarantee that it and any attachments are free from viruses or other damaging content: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.