Nah -- they're very good, being digital, with remarkable fidelity (off course if you records chaos it comes back with excellent fidelity to chaos). They run a long time on batteries and recharge rapidly. The only probaem with them is that they are so condensed physically that you need to learn a different mindset for operating them from the old habits of cassette recording. It's a learning curve, but do-able.

Despite this they are very handy for editing as well -- you can cut out bits, insert bits, move them around, put labels on 'em and so on. The disks hold masses of stuff.

You can't blend two tracks on an MDR but you can pipe them both to a computer as separate tracks, synch them up and mix them. Once they'r eon board the puder you can do anything to them a sound studio would do just about.


A