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Sony ICDUX70 Digital Voice Recorder MP3 Stereo Recording and Playback | 
 enlarge | Brand: Sony
Category: CE
List Price: $99.95
Buy New: $74.56
You Save: $25.39 (25%)
New (32) Used (2) Refurbished (7)
Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 0.5 x 1.4 x 3.8
MPN: ICDUX70
Model: ICDUX70
UPC: 027242723870
EAN: 0027242723870
ASIN: B00142VMMS
Availability: Usually ships in 3-4 business days
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| Features:
| • | 1 GB digital voice recorder for dictation, MP3 playback and recording, and storage | | • | Records up to 290 hours of digital audio | | • | MP3 playback | | • | USB direct design (no need for USB cable); drag and drop files directly to your computer | | • | Windows and Mac compatible |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Plug the ICD-UX70 directly into your compatible PC and enjoy easy, drag and drop file transfers. Its built-in 1GB Flash memory lets you record up to 290 hours of lectures, personal notes and more. You can even play back your favorite MP3 audio files and listen on the included stereo headphones. This compact and attractive digital voice recorder features five recording modes, Windows and Macintosh compatibility and it's available in three fashionable colors.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 23 more reviews...
 easy to use December 27, 2008
the voice recorder is easy to use and is reasonable on battery useage and even better because you can download the mp3 directly to your Mac or PC. I used this for taking audio notes during my classes and find that it works great.
 DigiVoice Recorder very good December 24, 2008
Nicely packaged and priced. Used for classroom lecture recordings. Pretty good quality capture and plug-in to computer is a needed feature. Display characters are a bit small but readable in good light. Overall easy to use.
Great functionality, way too slow startup for quick dictation. December 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Do you remember the old fashioned tape recorders that you started by just pressing the record and play buttons at the same time? I'm starting to miss that simplicity as the UX70 can take quite a while to start a recording.
As others have mentioned, this guy has a problem with passive battery power sucking. If I leave a brand new duracell AA battery in it, within a few weeks it will be completely drained, even with the ux70 hold switch turned on. So unless you are using this every day, you really need to keep the battery out until you use it. BTW, I only get approx 3-4 hours of recording out of a fresh battery, much less than the 10 hours the instructions say I should get. There's clearly some battery gremlins in this thing that haven't been tamed.
This issue is compounded by the fact that the clock loses its settings after just a few minutes of no battery. And to cap off the hassle, it takes approx 15 seconds for this thing to boot up whenever you haven't touched it for a little while.
So say you're driving along and you get a great idea that you want to dictate. The procedure is:
1. Open the battery door, find the battery, insert, and close the battery door.
2. Press any button to initiate the 15 second or so boot up.
3. Spend a minute setting the date and clock
4. Take a look at it to find the record button, which feels exactly like all the other buttons, and press it.
5. Take a look at the display to confirm it's recording; if you press the record button at the wrong time (e.g. during bootup) then it won't be recording. If you pressed the record button a second time it'll be paused. You really need to confirm visually that it's recording.
So you need at least a 1-2 minutes of your full attention to get this thing up and running. I really miss the old recorders where you could just hold down the record and play buttons and you'd know it was running by feeling the motor grinding away.
Even if you keep the battery in all the time, you still have the 15 second bootup time to deal with.
Another issue is that the internal microphone picks up and magnifies any rubbing or jostling movement, so you really should use an external microphone unless you'll be setting it down undisturbed.
I did lots of research on microphones and I found the Olympus microphones are the best deals. Note that the UX70 does provide power so it is okay to use the Olympus mikes that require power. I have used and recommend both of the following for use with this:
Olympus ME-15 microphone is the lapel mike, best for general use.
Olympus TP-7 microphone allows you to record phone calls, even on cell phones because it sits in your ear.
You won't go wrong with this recorder and those two mikes, as long as you don't need to start recording on the spur of the moment.
Works well as a music recorder December 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this unit hoping that I could get decent recordings of live music. I'm very pleased with the fidelity of music recorded in the ST mode, even when using the tiny built-in mic. The sound quality rivals that of the Tascam DR1, which I have used, and many consider the first choice in digital audio recorders (and twice the price of the Sony unit). The unit also works well as an MP3 player, though there is no shuffle mode. The spring-loaded menu navigation button seems cheezy, but I'll give the Sony engineers the benefit of the doubt on that.
awful speaker November 29, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love the Sony ICDUX70, I use mine in college lectures. I make sure to sit up front (or have a friend who sits up front record for me). My preference is the higher quality monaural (non-stereo) setting since I have no use for stereo sound but I still want quality. The only true complaint I have is the ATROCIOUS speaker on the back! It is basically impossible to hear or truly understand anything coming from it, the first time I played something I almost returned the recorder. When you use headphones or earbuds, though, it sounds excellent.
The time it takes to start-up is a little long also, but I tend to be early for class so this was not a problem for me.
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