Don't buy Sony multimedia products

Sony has a schizophrenic approach to their products. Because they are a huge conglomerate that owns a lot of copyrighted material (movies, music, etc.), they are paranoid about you converting any of it to something that might be useful to you in a format that is not a proprietary Sony format.
This is the company that put hacker software on their CD's to try and prevent people from ripping Sony CD's.

While there technology is often very good, their philosophy will be their ruination. Avoid the problem by buying a digital recorder from a company without psychological problems.

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Very poor playback volume

I bought this recorder to do one-on-one interviews. I can't listen to the recordings on the actual player though, I have to transfer them to the computer and play them with an audio player- the volume of the recordings is too quiet on the recorder itself. The quality of the recordings is fine once you get them transfered. The folders and the amount of storage on the recorder are great, but if I would have known that you can not listen to the files on the recorder I would have never purchased this.

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Poor Playback Volume

I got this device for voice recording, specifically notes to myself.The device records well even at 2-3 feet way. The playback volume is pitiful, however, even at the highest setting. Calling support was no help as they just directed me to do what I had already done and then told me it was recommended that one should always listen to the recording through the headphones. That is inconvenient for my purposes and I don't see any place on the package or on the insert which states that.

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