Karl P

I'm interested as well in any sources of this cable. I have not found anything like the wires you can cannibalize from ready made headphones. Having some longer wires would be nice.

The shopping cart is specific to your machine, so that link you provided shows empty for me.

There's nothing in the manual? I think you need to provide a little more info, I'm thinking we need a little more than "it didn't work". How about providing specs on the microphone you used, the format you are trying to recording in, and the exact steps you used including but not limited to "1. Charged the battery, 2. Powered on the M10 ..."

See what I mean? So confusing... I really thought I checked and didn't see much... Thanks for clearing this up.

It appears to me that the RH710 is a player only, NOT a recorder. Be careful with the model numbers, they can be pretty confusing, and the vastly different feature sets don't help either. I ended up getting a RH1 partly because I didn't want to worry about if this or that would be good enough.

I've been buying cables at the Shack and hacking those. I like the fact the plug is already attached, but I also can't help but think there's a better quality cable out there.

Posted in the DIY project thread here. The stereo effect obtained with these is great, I was surprised at the quality. Used the Panasonic 61a microphone capsules soldered onto the headphone cable that came with the cheapo headphones. AK_Dinosaur_Ride.mp3 The above is a recording I made with these. Made the battery box in the DIY thread too, attached these to that and then into a Sony RH1 recording in Hi-SP mode. The ONLY problem I had with these is wind noise, which actually caused an edit at the end of this file. It's tough to hear I think, but the last part I needed to replace the audio with a second ride through that didn't have the wind noise. I will be altering these to include a windscreen of some sort. Overall though, I can't complain. I figured I save myself over $100 by making my own stuff, and the quality really is tops.

I was looking at the SP BMC-2 over at Sound Professionals but opted to build my own. I'm very happy with the ones I built, cost less than $9 and quality is great.

The above link works very well. Parts are the confusing part, I've listed the parts I used further on down the thread. Good luck!

Just wanted to share a bit. Went to the shack today and noticed they had a few cheap items that you guys might be interested. They have some Hook-on In-Ear 'Phones (33-1106) on sale for like $4.97. I just modified them into a stealth mic. Used a couple WM-61A microphone elements I picked up at www.digikey.com. Used the dremel a bit on the earpiece to accept the mic and BINGO! Instant, relatively covert, stereo mic. Here's a picture. Disassembly/reassembly is pretty self explanatory. If you're soldering, the rest should be cake! The price was right too, can't wait to hear the results.

Just wanted to drop a thanks for these projects... Battery box seems to be working great, next up the microphones... A little backwards, but hey! Thanks again... OH, BTW - I used the following parts from mouser.com Caps: 50V 2.2uF 5x11 105° Nichicon Radial Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors (647-UVZ1H2R2MDD) Res: 10Kohms 1% 50PPM KOA Speer 1/4Wattt Metal Film Resistors (660-MF1/4CC1002F) Jack: 3.5mm PCB STEREO BLK (806-STX-3000) Probably could of used a different/better one) Plugs: 3.5 ST PL-3.5 ST PL (172-2238) Cut to fit...