Also, going to the gym where one just wants to listen to music on headphones and workout, without being bothered by phone calls.
Airplane Mode, is a quick toggle on basically all phones. Turns off all radios on the phone entirely.
Also, going to the gym where one just wants to listen to music on headphones and workout, without being bothered by phone calls.
Honestly, with the way some people are, I wouldn't be surprised I'm just trying to encroach in their personal space. Like if I sat down at a starbucks with that thing on the table, I wouldn't think it would go well.
I know some phones can record also, but not as well as these dedicated devices. If one is out in the country or mountains and wants to be away from a phone, the 2nd device seems to make some sense (leave phone in the car), and then with record ability to catch Elks bugles, or waterfalls, other sounds of nature. I know some phones can record also, but not as well as these dedicated devices.
Well, I think the mic's you're using are going to be more of the concern rather than the recorder. LG phones for example have 24-bit 192kHz recording capability, where you can choose WAV, FLAC, MP3, or AAC. This is far better than any handheld recorder that I know of (at least for formats, but recording bit-depth, and sample rate are only now approaching 24-bit 192kHz from Tascam for example). WAV is okay, but stupid since it doesn't conventionally support metadata, and the format is simply bloated from a storage perspective. So if you're chronicling large swathes of samples of field recordings, I imagine metadata lacking, and large WAV files are annoying (annoying due to size, and annoying that you probably would want to do conversion to something like FLAC anyway). The fact that these recorders don't have proper hardware encoders to support on-the-fly conversion is a bit sad, considering they're dedicated for something like field recording, and some only support, what? 128GB's of storage at best, while some phones support Dual SD cards totaling potentially 2TB's easily these days (2x 1TB SD Cards).
Now obviously I understand handheld field recorders that are a bit more upscale ($300-$700), you get proper features a phone will never have (XLR connectors or ability to use various types of add-on microphones, or more channels, and obviously professional aspects like that, which are specialized for the purpose). But now we're not really talking about using recorders for listening to music at that point. We're talking about recorders that are mostly going to be used for field recording, and secondarily used for listening to music. And if that's the case going forward, obviously opting for a field recorder makes far more sense.
Another issue I have with recorders, you have for instance a $300 DR-100MKIII from Tascam (finally 192kHz, which I don't really care about, but is interesting to see they're making progress at least from some aspect in terms of newer hardware) . When I look at the ADC chip they use, it's basically a
$3 SKU from AKM (AK4558) that's at least half a decade old. I know I can't expect much, but I'd expect more, and I'd hope for things like in reviews talking about how sensitive the devices are to interference AT LEAST).
But I'm off topic too much. The whole thing was about using the device for listening to music.
One thing I will agree and I think is heavily in the field recording favor, is the ergonomics. Fuck touchscreen-exclusive operations for something like recordings. I want buttons I can operate without having to hold the device in some weird cramp-inducing way just to avoid accidental button presses. It's nice to have a field recoder due to ergonomics, and ease of use and being able to press buttons without having to look at the device to make sure it registered, or you didn't miss a touch operation by overshooting the button by accident or something. For recordings, this aspect blows phones to pieces EVEN IF phones were perhaps better sound-quality wise or whatever else.
