Our Overall Score:
9/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our SONY ICD-PX470 Digital Voice Recorder review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if SONY ICD-PX470 Digital Voice Recorder is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Dictaphones category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £45.99
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like SONY ICD-PX470 Digital Voice Recorder. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Sony or alternative products in the Dictaphones category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of SONY ICD-PX470 Digital Voice Recorder
SONY ICD-PX470 Digital Voice Recorder scores 9.2/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Dictaphones. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of SONY ICD-PX470 Digital Voice Recorder, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for SONY ICD-PX470 Digital Voice Recorder and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Dictaphones, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Dictaphones? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
SONY ICD-PX470 Digital Voice Recorder scores 9.6/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Dictaphones category was £140.99, whilst the cheapest we found was £29.99 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of SONY ICD-PX470 Digital Voice Recorder down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Dictaphones category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Dictaphones category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for SONY ICD-PX470 Digital Voice Recorder.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Dictaphones category. This was £68.39 from the 5 products we found in that category. So SONY ICD-PX470 Digital Voice Recorder actually comes in below average at £45.99.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £140.99 and the least expensive, which was £29.99. In total we found that of the 5, 2 were more expensive and 2 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as SONY ICD-PX470 Digital Voice Recorder.
Prices of products from Sony
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Sony. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Sony, which was £453.54 of the 318 products we found. So SONY ICD-PX470 Digital Voice Recorder price is below average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Sony was £6.99 with the most expensive coming in at £9999.
Prices of products from Sony and in the Dictaphones category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Sony that sit specifically within the Dictaphones category.
For this we found that the average price was £68.39, making SONY ICD-PX470 Digital Voice Recorder at £45.99 actually below average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £140.99 with the lowest priced item being £29.99. In total there were 2 items that were more expensive and 2 that was less expensive.
Reviews of SONY ICD-PX470 Digital Voice Recorder
SONY ICD-PX470 Digital Voice Recorder scores 8.3/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good SONY ICD-PX470 Digital Voice Recorder is.
Overall score
SONY ICD-PX470 Digital Voice Recorder scores 9/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Sony so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for SONY ICD-PX470 Digital Voice Recorder by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: SONY ICD-PX470 Digital Voice Recorder
- Brand: Sony
- Model Number: ICDPX470
- Recording quality: 192 KbpsRecording time: 59 hours 35 minutes Transcription featureTwo-directional microphoneDirect USB connection
- EAN: 4548736033610
- Description: Top features:- Find and transfer files quickly with Calendar Search and USB direct connection- microSD card slot lets you expand your storage up to 32 GB- Enhanced audio with low cut filter and Auto Voice Recording- Adjustable mic range for recording single or multiple sound sources- Record for up to 55 hours in MP3 or LPCM formatsCalendar Search and USB direct connectionStay organised and work quickly with the Sony ICD-PX470 Digital Voice Recorder, ideal for journalistic, commercial and personal recording applications. Calendar Search lets you browse days on a calendar to find what you want – recordings are date-marked, so it’s easy to keep track of your work.Connect the recorder directly to your PC via direct USB connection to transfer files quickly and conveniently. You won’t even need a USB cable.microSD card slotStart recording straight away with 4 GB of internal memory, letting you capture up to 59 hours and 35 minutes of audio in MP3 at 128 Kbps. The Sony ICDPX470 features a microSD card slot so you can expand your storage up to 32 GB. That’s a potential 536 hours of MP3 recording at 128 Kbps.Low cut filter and Auto Voice RecordingEliminate low-frequency background sounds during recordings with the low cut filter. It’s useful for filtering out common problem sounds like projectors, traffic or wind so voices can be heard more clearly. Auto Voice Recording reduces background noise to enhance recordings with optimised settings for speech frequencies. Clear Voice technology cleans up the signal for even clearer playback.Adjustable mic rangeChange capture settings depending on what you’re recording with adjustable microphone range. Use Focus mode for single voices – it captures a narrow sound field from one direction. For multiple voices, Wide-Stereo mode captures a wider range so each speaker is audible. Four scene presets (Music, Meeting, Interview, Dictation) let you pick the optimal audio settingRecord for up to 55 hoursYou can record compressed MP3s or higher-quality Linear PCM files depending on whether you need to capture a lot of speech, or if you’re recording music and other complex sounds. The ICD PX 470 Voice Recorder plays back MP3 and PCM files – enjoy your favourite songs in music player mode.Record for up to 55 hours off the supplied AAA batteries when you’re capturing MP3 files at 192 or 128 Kbps. That’s plenty of battery life to cover long events.
- Product ID: 5230304491
