[gui-talk] Olympus recorders

[albert griffith]

I already have a book for minimal note taking and listening to most books 
except for Windows copyrighted files and I'll wait for the real thing. 
However, I hope others find the need to purchase this machine to encourage 
other developers to continue the good work that's been done at Olympus.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dane Trethowan" <danetrethowan at iprimus.com.au>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Olympus recorders


| Ok, well let's get one thing perfectly clear, just because I don't
| think something is suitable for me doesn't mean that I'm telling
| people they shouldn't use it themselves, if the Olympus recorder
| sounds the sort of thing you'll want to use then fine! use it to your
| hearts content, the point I'm making here is that it wouldn't suit me
| as I believe it has some critical limitations and problems and for
| the price I believe you should be getting a little more. I've already
| expressed my disappointment at the level of audio hiss present in
| some of the recordings I've now heard, for a digital recorder this is
| not good and there is no excuse for that.
| I expressed disappointment that the unit has no line in or out jacks
| however I can see where Olympus is coming from here, I guess with
| something designed mainly for dictation purposes which this machine
| is, then such things as line in and out are not worth considering.
| Finally my greatest annoyance would be that the memory cannot be
| expanded, swapped etc, that's worse than a conventional cassette
| recorder and a bad flaw.
| So I guess the question has to be asked, are people prepared to pay
| this sort of money for something which on the whole, isn't really
| anything in my view to write home about? Are people willing to pay
| all this money just for a voice guidance system?? I'm certainly not
| but that's just me. I'm after the new Minidisc machine as this sort
| of device will suit me better. It will handle dictation easily thanks
| to its feeld microphone or any other external microphones you may
| care to use. You can edit your notes or your audio recordings "on the
| fly", that's more than can be said for my Iriver and the lack of
| editing facilities is a huge disappointment for me on that machine
| but this topic is probably for another post.
| I can record audio to my hearts content thanks to the analog/digital
| line input and output.
| Yes, the minidisc recorder doesn't have a voice guideance system that
| I grant you however I have 2 minidisc machines here, both of which
| I've been able to access many of the functions of including the
| editing functions, by having someone read parts of the manual to me,
| taking notes and having someone go through the menus of my machines
| whilst I write so taking this into account, I'd rather something with
| functionality over voice guidance systems etc, they're nice but
| they're not the only thing which makes a good product.
|
| On 02/02/2007, at 2:53 AM, George and Pamela Dominguez wrote:
|
| Do you have one you would suggest instead??  Pam.
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Dane Trethowan" <danetrethowan at iprimus.com.au>
| To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
| Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 3:03 AM
| Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Olympus recorders
|
|
| > I'm going to have a few cents here as well.
| > The recorder is not for me but this is just me.
| > Firstly, it doesn't have any line in or out so that takes it off the
| > list for a start and given this fact then I personally wouldn't call
| > the recorder a "quality recorder", its meant as a dictation machine
| > it would seem to me and probably doest that jub reasonably well.
| > The other thing which turns me of this unit is the hiss the unit
| > seems to generate in all the samples I've heard thus far.
| > Now I CANNOT CONFIRM THIS BECAUSE I'VE NOT HEARD IT FOR MYSELF BUT
| > I'VE TALKED TO OTHER USERS OF THIS RECORDER AND THEY SAY IT "CLIPS"
| > VERY EASILY, THAT BEING THE CASE THEN THIS IS BAD AS THERE IS NO
| > REASON WHY THIS SHOULD HAPPEN WITH A digital recording device.
| >
| > On 01/02/2007, at 6:44 PM, albert griffith wrote:
| >
| > Dane, thanks
| > ----- Original Message -----
| > From: "Dane Trethowan" <danetrethowan at iprimus.com.au>
| > To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
| > Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 12:31 AM
| > Subject: [gui-talk] Olympus recorders
| >
| >
| > | since this seems to be a hot topic right now, I thought I'd mention
| > | that you'll find another review in 2 parts at
| > | http://www.blindcooltech.com
| > |
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