"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message ...

The limiting factor is going to be the microphone and its position for
this sort of stealth recording - not so much the medium it's recorded in.

And in a large probably echoey room, you're not going to get good results
no matter what.


The cheapest way to improve the audio quality in a poor acoustic is to
get the microphone as close as possible to the source of the wanted
sound.

As Dave Plowman suggested, you probably won't get results that are
much better than borderline intelligible, you would be very fortunate
indeed to get reasonable quality results. Much depends on what you are
recording and what you intend to do with the recording.

Richer Sounds often sell cheap factory refurbished Minidisk recorders.
I got a Sharp one a couple of months ago for around £45 and I would
imagine that it might well suit your purposes.

It does have modes where you can record at a lower quality for much
longer durations, it's tiny and it runs off a single AA battery for
ages.