PDA-powered portable recording

Thanks to Kevin for pointing me towards the freaky-looking PD Audio system, which uses Windows CE PDAs with various add-ons to record at up to 24/96 quality onto SD cards. It seems to be a well thought-out system, and the site is useful, with what you really need lists. Unfortunately, it's not cheap. When you include their $549 digital mic preamp (but no mics), the top-of-the-line system costs $1,200+, with their 16/44 budget package at around $750. And of course, if you're on Windows CE, you won't even be able to run Bahji's Loops or Microbe software...

Posted by Tom Whitwell.

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this thing's been plagued with reliability issues for a while now. yet the whole time, the owner of core sound has lied and said it works perfectly, jsut so he could sell more non-functioning units

i'd stay away

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Anonymous : 9:26 pm

The quality of sound produced by this system is great, but there definitely seem to be "issues" with the company's leadership. Since their card's Linux driver is found in mainline, I think it's a real shame that the business cannot meet their customers' expectations. In my opinion, the technical merit of their product does not justify the poor service that I received. Unless you really need the CF form factor, you will be much happier spending your money with a different vendor.

# posted by

Anonymous : 3:56 am

Well I couldn't agree more of what is written here already- as they say, Buyer Beware- and don't trust the word of Core Sound- refer to these links and just read up on it- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PenComputingAudio/
Or a more independent critique -
http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=7343.0
http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=29729.0

Sorry about the word wrap folks- but this post is limited- in any case, you'll get a general consensus as to what works with it and what doesn't. It's actually irrevlent though- for the money, you can get a turnkey device that does what PD-Audio pertends to do- and that is work ;-))))

# posted by

Anonymous : 6:19 am

This is pretty cool.

Come to think of it, these PDAs could be converted into dedicated devices like high end DAC with interface add ons.

Hmm, just imagine a Benchmark Media DAC1 in a PDA....

# posted by

Anonymous : 8:11 am

I thought that was a joke picture when I first saw it. It looks like stuff its just randomly slapped on. Its really quiet an eye-sore.

# posted by

Anonymous : 6:54 pm

jesus, what's wrong with you guys? I am using this sytem and it is simply terrific. It is essentially a storage device and together with an outboard preamp provides phenomenal sound and portability.

Rob

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Anonymous : 9:23 am