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Olympus VN-240PC Voice Recorder

Childrens Toy Shop > Electronics > Digital
from: Olympus


I'm a freelance journalist and a communications professional. I bought this gadget thinking I needed something cheap and cheerful to record. And it is. It works wonders. Files are easy to download. It holds hours upon hours of interviews. It's handy and clear and I love it. Nice price too.

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Olympus DS-50 Digital Voice Recorder with MP3/WMA Playback 1GB

Childrens Toy Shop > Electronics > Digital
from: Olympus


I'm a freelance journalist and a communications professional. I bought this gadget thinking I needed something cheap and cheerful to record. And it is. It works wonders. Files are easy to download. It holds hours upon hours of interviews. It's handy and clear and I love it. Nice price too.

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Tascam GTR1 Portable Guitar/Bass Recorder

Childrens Toy Shop > Electronics > Digital
from: Tascam


I'm a freelance journalist and a communications professional. I bought this gadget thinking I needed something cheap and cheerful to record. And it is. It works wonders. Files are easy to download. It holds hours upon hours of interviews. It's handy and clear and I love it. Nice price too.

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Sony 1GB Digital Dictation (Pink)

Childrens Toy Shop > Electronics > Digital
from: Sony

March 03, 2008
It's simple to use and pretty to look at, but the recording leaves much to be desired. If you are recording at close range the Sony does a great job, but with distance the recorded volume falls of hugely and is over shadowed with an annoying background hiss. This makes it too difficult, if not nearly imppossible, to hear through the in-built speaker or supplied headphones. The only way that I could make sense of things was to use a set of headphones with a volume control and the Sony's microphone sensitivty set to maximum. Given the price of these gadgets the Sony's performance is well below acceptable. I do not have experience of hard drive dictation machines, but my minidisc was far better than this. This item is going back and I'm of to Olympus, ... Read More:

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Olympus CS-111-E1 Leather Case for DS-2300

Childrens Toy Shop > Electronics > Digital
from: Olympus

October 19, 2005
It's simple to use and pretty to look at, but the recording leaves much to be desired. If you are recording at close range the Sony does a great job, but with distance the recorded volume falls of hugely and is over shadowed with an annoying background hiss. This makes it too difficult, if not nearly imppossible, to hear through the in-built speaker or supplied headphones. The only way that I could make sense of things was to use a set of headphones with a volume control and the Sony's microphone sensitivty set to maximum. Given the price of these gadgets the Sony's performance is well below acceptable. I do not have experience of hard drive dictation machines, but my minidisc was far better than this. This item is going back and I'm of to Olympus, ... Read More:

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Sony 1gb Digital Dictation Blue

Childrens Toy Shop > Electronics > Digital
from: Sony

March 03, 2008
This voice recorder has a VERY sensitive microphone which picks up even the faintest background noise, but in just 2 hours of recording the battery (1xAAA) run out.

The design is very discreet, not bigger than an average MP3 player, with extra features! Lightweight. Very, very easy to operate voice recording.

Comes with headphones and a neck attachment to carry it around, and the software CD needed for PC uploading. It has a USB terminal so no wires are needed to connect to the PC.

Recording voice with the headphones inserted makes a very loud whistle sound, you have to unplug them.

The USB terminal cover is made of very flimsy plastic and so is the battery cover, and by flimsy I mean very thin, ... Read More:

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Olympus DS-2 Digital Voice Recorder

Childrens Toy Shop > Electronics > Digital
from: Olympus

October 19, 2005
I upgraded my old Olympus DS-150 for the DS-2 because of it's storage capacity, size and style. This little digital voice recorder is great for digitally recording voice...but that's all it will do. I got the DS-2 to allow me to dictate letters etc. But I found that it lacked the fundamental feature of being able to edit files i.e. rewind and overwrite from a certain point. This is essential for dictation and was surprised it was not a part of the DS-2.
NO to dictaion, YES if all you want to do is record.

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Sanyo B31X Digital Voice Recorder - 32MB

Childrens Toy Shop > Electronics > Digital
from: SANYO

November 21, 2006
I upgraded my old Olympus DS-150 for the DS-2 because of it's storage capacity, size and style. This little digital voice recorder is great for digitally recording voice...but that's all it will do. I got the DS-2 to allow me to dictate letters etc. But I found that it lacked the fundamental feature of being able to edit files i.e. rewind and overwrite from a certain point. This is essential for dictation and was surprised it was not a part of the DS-2.
NO to dictaion, YES if all you want to do is record.

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Xtrememac MicroMemo for iPod nano G2 - Black

Childrens Toy Shop > Electronics > Digital
from: Xtrememac

November 14, 2006
I use this for recording my singing lesson. Quality of sound for this is excellent. Burns onto a CD wonderfully. It does occasionally cause problems with my IPOD but just doing a basic reset on the machine sorts it out without losing any data.

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Sony ICDB3001.CEQ 64MB IC Voice Recorder

Childrens Toy Shop > Electronics > Digital
from: Sony

August 22, 2006
I use this for recording my singing lesson. Quality of sound for this is excellent. Burns onto a CD wonderfully. It does occasionally cause problems with my IPOD but just doing a basic reset on the machine sorts it out without losing any data.