Hi Richard
I have had good and bad finds on eBay. I also use the handhelds here and 
there but I find their connections annoying and prone to noise. Whenever 
I buy something on eBay (The ATR's also) it first gets a complete bench 
overhaul. I found that this way I get better results. I have a Norelco 
minicassette that was in really bad condition and now works great (well, 
sort of considering the limitations of rim drive). It's always a gamble, 
for sure. ;-)
Cheers

Shai

בתאריך 20/04/13 10:40 PM, ציטוט Richard L. Hess:
> Hi, Shai,
>
> Maybe you had better luck with these than I did. I looked at one a 
> while ago and I bought a used mini/micro transcriber (I think 
> Dictaphone) and other than not working well, the hum level was higher 
> than I'd like on it. Since the machine was pretty annoying on many 
> levels, I did not try adding capacitors or a filtered supply. I think 
> I still have it. The nice thing is that it also attempted to do 
> mini-cassettes (which are rim-drive (capstanless)) but I found the 
> speed to be as annoying as running them on a capstan machine...it was 
> just different. Fortunately, Elastic Audio in Samplitude lets me fix 
> the speed fairly quickly. One of the unique features in Diamond Cut 
> audio software (one of the reasons I keep it around) is it has a 
> spline-curve speed trajectory program that's pretty good for these 
> things, though the hassle of chaning DAWs for the project usually has 
> me fixing it in Elastic Audio.
>
> To that end, when I have not pulled the tape out, I have an Olympus 
> and a Realistic (Radio Shack) hand-held and both sound as good or 
> better than the transcriber. Neither sound as good as the Dragon (but 
> we're not surprised). The handhelds are more than adequate, however, 
> and since they're running off batteries then there is little chance of 
> hum (except picking it up through the repro head).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
> On 2013-04-20 2:33 PM, Shai Drori wrote:
>> Hi Tyra
>> Here are some options on eBay right now.
>> Shai
>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Panasonic-RR-930-Microcassette-Transcriber-Dictation-Machine-With-Foot-Pedal-/360638716662?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53f7be1af6 
>>
>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Panasonic-RR-930-Micro-Cassette-Transcriber-Machine-w-Foot-Pedal-/251262957848?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a80707918 
>>
>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/DICTAPHONE-3720-Microcassette-Transcriber-W-Foot-Pedal-Microphone-AC-Adapter-/281085867081?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item417205f449 
>>
>>
>

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