Summary: A nice little machine for very basic recording. Sound quality is OK but there is a buzzing noise in the background of all my recordings so far. It appears necessary to have the built in microphone fairly close to the mouth when recording speech. When the machine is put on a table to record conversation between more than one speaker they need to talk fairly loudly to have an easily understandable recording--this is best for recording from a single person rather than a conversation.

Summary: This is definitely the best recorder you can buy under sony brand at this price. I just needed a recorder, and only could accept a price under 20 bucks. So I bought this one from amazon, and it got the job done.that is all. Don't expect too much from it. forget about the things like sound quality,you know, it is a plastic one.anyway,But i still think it is a good buy. However, in my homeland, China, you can get a record alike, of course not under sony brand, at about 5 bucks.

Summary: product arrived on time via united parcel post....easy to use..good size....easy to follow directions....not happy that it didn't come with a tape or tell you that you needed to buy a tape.