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It was a great purchase, easy to use, great sound, many features, smaller than i expected.
this is a great product, i ended up buying one for my mom too so she could record her classes as well. i ordered one to record my chem lectures and i dont regret the purchase. its lightweight and easy to use.
The sound quality is excellent.I have also recorded concerts. I purchased this item to record practice sessions for singing.It performs extremely well. I am very pleased with this item
What's not to like. And it gives astoundingly high quality results with immediate access and playback to any point that you wish. This digital voice recorder has absolutely blown me away with its quality. It is idiot-proof in its ease of use - I am no techno-wizard. It was recommended to me by someone who uses a digital voice recorder on a daily basis as a dialect coach and he has been through the gamut of instruments available on the market and assured me that he has never come across one that performs so brilliantly in this price range (or even in the high priced ranges).
On the other hand, it's lightness does allow me to carry it in my breast pocket without shifting my shirt. I have yet to use the MP3 player function, so I will refrain from speaking on that.All in all though, I am EXTREMELY satisfied with my Olympus. I'm a pretty hands-on kind of guy and heaviness, for me, inspires confidence. I've been almost tempted on a few occasions to actually dig the manual out of my drawer to find out if there's something I'm missing, because nothing should be this simple.The battery life is great; I haven't timed it, but I have been hitting upwards of ten hours of recording, and that is changing the battery (AAA) WELL before it dies.
(It sounds stupid, I know, but regularly carrying heavier things like my cell phone in shirts with stiff collars has given me neck chafing, so it's lightness is probably actually a plus). (I'm currently working on an assignment on conversational styles, thus changing batteries would cause subjects to "remember" the recorder and impede the natural flow).The audio is great as well. This is pretty minor though, as the whole point is to transfer the files over to a computer for this sort of operation. I've had it sitting in the middle of my living room, clearly capturing voices all around the room and even in the kitchen (open floor plan, don't know how well audio coming around walls would be captured); in my breast pocket recording conversations while driving; and have even used it for recording music. Light. That said, this little number is fantastic.I'll start with my complaints, as they are generally so minor that I may as well get them out of the way so the reader can safely forget them: Navigating within an audio file can be a pretty arduous task; I tend to record hours at a time and the only way to review it (on the device) is scanning through, which can take quite a while and one has to start all over again if the scan button is accidentally tapped.
Second, the construction feels a little flimsy. It feels light. Lastly, a memory expansion slot would be nice, maybe microSDHC. Granted, it's not so acoustically endowed as to be able to be used for production-quality audio, but capable enough to capture distinct intonations for recording practices, jam sessions, or new song ideas. I preface this with the one caveat that this is my first digital voice recorder, and thus have nothing to compare it to. Actually, that's probably the wrong word.
I worried about this before buying and, while I have been very pleasantly surprised and satisfied with between thirty and forty hours worth of recording space at the default bitrate, I can see available space becoming an issue for buyers who do plan on using the WS-321M for its MP3 playback.As for the device's positives, basic use is as simple as turning it on and hitting record and navigating the file structure took me all of about fifteen seconds to figure out.
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