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 > > -- Richard L. Hess email: [log in to unmask] Aurora, Ontario, Canada 647 479 2800 http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.