Ikey-Audio M3 Portable Digital Recorder With 1 Gb Secure Digital Card

• Full color LCD screen
• Records from any mono or stereo line source
• Records 128, 256 and 320 kbps MP3 files and WAV files
• Record directly to included Secure Digital Card
• Record directly to USB key drive (not included)

The previous reviewer wanted to know if the DC input jack is center positive or center negative. It is positive. That is easy to determine with an ohmmeter, which shows that the minus end of the battery string is connected to the sleeve contact of the DC jack. So now you know.

I found a 5V regulated wall cube in my junk box with the right connector. It works just fine with the M3.

So far I am satisfied with the M3. I made a few test recordings from the line input from a SACD album and they sounded just fine. I also did some voice recordings from the mic input, using an electret PC mic, and they sounded fine too.

I accidentally discovered an undocumented "feature". The unit has an Automatic Gain Control (AGC) function. To turn it on, you press the record button, press the Play/Pause button, release Play/Pause, then release record. The mode is shown by the legend "AGC" in the red stripe of the display above the file name, and the level bar at that bottom is not present. This recipe for turning on AGC is not reliable sometimes it works but usually it doesn't. The AGC doesn't work very well; when I recorded music with AGC on, the "pumping" sound was very obvious and objectionable. To turn off the AGC, the same recipe that you use to turn it on sometimes works, but it's easier just to turn the power off and then back on.

I tried an 8 GB SDHC card in place of the supplied 1 GB SD card; it worked. I also tried a 1 GB USB stick; that worked too.

To manage the files (delete, etc), you must either plug the M3 into a computer (via the USB cable) or remove the SD card or USB stack and connect that directly to the computer.

All in all, I'm pleased with the product so far. It does what I need without a lot of extraneous features, and the price is right. The other products that I looked at had a lot of features that I don't need and don't want to have to deal with in the user interface, at a correspondingly higher price.

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We purchased this item to record four three-day conventions with a total attendance of over 24,000. So we had only one chance to record the live programs. The recorder is compact and easy to use. In testing we noticed it would not record directly to a laptop. So we purchased an 8GB USB flash drive plugged it into the provided USB port and turned on the record button. We never had any problems. After the conventions we easily edited each program and made multiple MP3 CD's using a third party free editing software program called Audicity.

The only complaint we had was the first recorder we ordered had scratches on the front, we called Amazon and we had a replacment "in our hands" the very next day. All of this with no shipping charges to us. It was a great deal and we got exceptional service from Amazon.com.

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Ikey M has bugs and the recording quality is not like the older versions, records in one line (left or right) and cuts off some parts in the recording, overall bad experience, when calling to their customer service (at I-Key products), they get defensive and don't give a solution aside of saying you need to buy a new one!, BAD customer Service. If you can avoid buying this, I would recommend to do so.

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I've used this product for maybe two weeks and it was working perfectly fine. So 5 stars for that. One day I wanted to record a mix and it tells me there is no space left on the device, while i have the SD card completely clean besides the files that have to be on there also tried connecting a 4gig flash drive which used to work before with the recorder.. same result. Right when something important comes up for me this thing brakes or w/e happened to it, so should I buy another one? There is absolutely no support for it anywhere.

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For those people that can't find an adaptor, just go to RadioShack lol.

Makes great recordings. I use it to digitize LPs and to bootleg XM to play on my MP3 player. Wish it had a microphone.