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THE GLITCH
As has been documented elsewhere, the H-series will drop a few samples every 30 seconds or so when recording to WAV (less often when going to MP3) as the HD spins up and flushes the buffer. These are often inaudible, but can and do make themselves known as a distinctive ‘click’ on the recorded track. There is nothing that can be done on the player to avoid this as yet.
However, Cool Edit Pro, now Adobe Audition (and probably Soundforge I presume) has a Pop and Click remover, which can scan your file and remove them for you automatically. It's very slow though so I upgraded to the ClickFix plugin, which does the same job a lot quicker - It can't rid you of the click altogether, but it comes damn close. A single pass with this filter makes them inaudible to my ears. We still don't know if the glitch is to be dealt with firmware updates – time will tell I suppose.
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