My musician sister bought the Sony for me after she got one herself on the recommendation of another instrumentalist. For a digital voice recorder to use for practice and to record workshops and song circles, the quality is actually pretty good other than the 'damping down' of vocal resonance.

    I also have an Olympus digital voice recorder that I tried to use for the same purpose before Annie gifted me with the Sony. I don't know what Annie paid for the Sony ICD-ST, but the Olympus was fairly pricey. The quality of that little machine was so poor I didn't use it.

    I will ask Dani listen to a couple of the recordings I have made and tell me how much fidelity there is compared to my live singing.

Thanks to all.

Janie