handheld recorder battery runtime resource.

[engaudio]

http://www.wingfieldaudio.com/portable- ... -life.html

Stephanie Wingate has posted the results of a real world battery life test on her web site, http://www.wingfieldaudio.com This is the most comprehensive test of battery life in pocket-size audio recorders anywhere! Thanks to Stephanie for her hard work.

Stephanie tested all 16 recorders that she sells. To make sure that the recorders would not run out of storage space before the battery expired, digitization was set to MP3 format at 128 kbps.

Because the Sony PCM-D50 and PCM-D1 units don't record MP3, they were set to capture WAV files at 16/22.05.

Results:
first place.....Sony PCM-M10...43.0 hours
second place....Sony PCM-D50...25.5 hours
third place......Olympus LS-11...19.2 hours

See the web page for the rest of the results
http://www.wingfieldaudio.com/portable- ... -life.html

Of course the results would be different if the recorders were digitizing at 24/96 (writing more data per second uses more power), and providing plug-in power to external mics. But the rank order is unlikely to change.

[Moofie]

Great links Grant.

Cheers

Tom