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(122 customer reviews) 156 of 160 people found the following review helpful
Works great,
August 28, 2005 Lars Larsen "Student" (Charlottesville, VA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Olympus VN-960PC 128 MB Digital Voice Recorder with PC Link (Office Product)
This recorder works great. Its easy to use, sound quality is good, and the low/high microphone sensitivity feature is great for cutting out background noise for dictation or when you're recording a very close-up or loud speaker. Sounds great in both HQ and SP mode, and has enough memory to record all day long. My favorite feature is the USB upload. Its fast, and worked for me the first time without any problems.
The only problem, is that amazon claims it comes with headphones. It does not. It also claims it comes with a microphone, and I guess it does, but its just the built in one. It does, however, have jacks for both headphones and an external mic, which I assume would increase recording quality even more.
133 of 138 people found the following review helpful
This is one 'Happy Purchase' we made... please read why!,
December 21, 2005 VP (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Olympus VN-960PC 128 MB Digital Voice Recorder with PC Link (Office Product)
We didn't buy this to record lectures and stuff but we bought it to record our little girl's baby talk :-) We couldn't be happier. I wish we had it when our boy was little.
Olympus VN-960PC is an exceptionally well made device. Very easy to use. Buttons are positioned wisely. The recording quality is wonderful (even from under the blankey!). Each piece of recording is labeled seperately so there is no chance of 'recording over' like in an audio cassette.
The recording format is WAV. It can simply be transferred and played on any CD player (or can be converted to MP3 with appropriate third party software). We made our parents very happy (who live thousands of miles away from us) by sending them the baby's voices on CD (because it is difficult to get even a coo out of her over phone!!)
This voice recorder delivered exactly what we bought it for, hence the 5 starts!
It could have had an AC adapter, but that's no reason to frown upon. Good...Read more
30 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Can't beat it for the price,
May 23, 2006 Hethra "Hethra" (Orlando, FL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Olympus VN-960PC 128 MB Digital Voice Recorder with PC Link (Office Product)
This is GREAT. I really am impressed with this device and happy I bought it over other models. It is really refreshing, after coming across so many crappy items out there, to find something of quality for a good price.
Battery life is impressive. LOVE the ability to transfer to computer (and subsequently, to iPod, or whatever). The software, as others have said, is not the greatest, however I find it to be quite adequate and haven't had any problems. What I like is this isn't one of those devices that forces you to only use its own particular format that isn't compatible with anything else. You download the files in .WAV format and you can access the files with other software easily (like Audacity, free audio editing software for optimization or cutting out silences or whatnot). So even if you do not like the software, you are not limited to it (though I'm not sure if other software can be used for downloading the files).
The biggest dislike I have (which is a...Read more
