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Phone cable wrecked my digital voice recorder?

I have a Sony voice Digital recorder ICD-B25. I tried using a phone recording cable on it, and after that, the record feature stopped working. This cable has a phone jack on one end and a regular male jack on the other end, to fit in the mic input. I bought the cable on ebay and the ad mentioned you can use it with a micro cassette recorder. I asked the seller if it can be used on a digital recorder, he said he does not know. Is it possible that this cable wrecked my ecorder? anything else I can try? thanks for your input.

btw: it has voice activation feature (only recodes when there is sound coming in, other wise it pauses). So when I record it is always pausing. If I turn off voice activation, it shows that it is recording, but when I listen to the recording, it sound like quiet white noise. So I deduct that since the voice activation does not ever get engaged, it means the mic is not picking up any sound (that applies to both external mic or built in mic). recorder is 1 year o

btw: it has voice activation feature (only recodes when there is sound coming in, other wise it pauses). So when I record it is always pausing. If I turn off voice activation, it shows that it is recording, but when I listen to the recording, it sound like quiet white noise. So I deduct that since the voice activation does not ever get ingage, it means the mic is not picking up any sound (that applies to both external mic or built in mic). recorder is 1 year old.

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lbbss
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Reply to
Mike Berger

does the internal mic still work?

the cable may have damaged the electronics in the recorder.

a telephone line can have high voltages especially when the phone rings.

but even when the phone is just idle, there is a substantial DC voltage on the phone line and if this is just a plain cable with no electroincs to remove the DC voltage, then yes it may have damaged your recorder.

Mark

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Mark

the jack is the right size, but I am not sure if it is meant to be use on a digital recorder. Instructions mention a microcassette player. Is that different when it comes to the mic connection? You would think since the cable works on microcassett why not work with digital recorder?

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lbbss

Is the voltage different in a mircrocasset player from digital recorders?

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lbbss

I wouldn't expect it to be, it's a mic input which is fairly standard.

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James Sweet

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