From: harvey50120@micro.net   
      
   I have owned the Zoom H2 since they were first on the market.  About   
   three years ago, I made a deluxe wind cover for it and used it for   
   nature recording.  It did very well.  Being older, there was some noise   
   mixed into the captures and I was able to nearly negate it by carefully   
   applying NR using Adobe Audition.  Of course I left a little bit in to   
   prevent too much frequency response reduction and artifacts.  That is   
   until a year ago when I discovered online noise reduction algorithms.   
   The results I achieve with those blow away anything I ever did in   
   software.  Anyway, getting off the subject here but....   
      
   My trust Zoom H2 hasn't worked for the last couple of years.  It powers   
   on and boots up to the point where "system error" is revealed on the   
   screen.  Any thoughts would be welcome for troubleshooting this.   
      
   If in the event I am unable to get the recorder working again, I may   
   invest in a used, updated model. Budget is very limited, so really hope   
   to get mine working again though.   
      
   One of their recorders that sparked my interest lately was the Zoom F2   
   field recorder.   The big push behind it is recording in 32 bit and   
   therefore no audio settings are needed because they can be adjust later.   
     Since I've used nothing but my H2, I am unfamiliar with this claim.   
   If true, and say you had to really boost weak nature sound volume later,   
   wouldn't you also still have to content with the inherent background   
   noise from the recorder amps also being boosted?  Maybe in the 15+ years   
   since initial H2 purchase, noise in amps is no longer an issue.  Well,   
   the F2 was just one possibility but there are probably better ones for   
   both nature and voice that are cheaper.  I was always satisfied with the   
   H2's frequency response for anything I recorded with it.   
      
   Your thoughts welcome on these topics.  Thanks in advance.   
      
   Harv   
      
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