The past few months, I have been having a great deal of fun with two pieces of gear that go great together. One is the iriver hp-140 mp3 player/recorder. The other is an Audio Technica AT822 battery operated microphone. These two devices together are the greatest pieces of technology to enter my life. The iriver hp120 and 140 are 20 and 40 gigabyte multi-codec players and recorders. They have 1/8th inch input and output, as well as optical in and out. They are also equipped with a USB interface. The recorder can record with many varieties of mp3 compression and bitrates. It can also record 14.4kHz WAV files. The inputs are very quiet, even at full gain (+48dB)

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