[gui-talk] Olympus recorders

Thu Feb 1 22:36:53 CST 2007

Agreed on those points as well.

On 02/02/2007, at 12:04 PM, George and Pamela Dominguez wrote:

Okay, but the things you said disappointed you are things that would
disappoint me, too.  I don't want to pay a lot of money, or for that  
matter,
any money for something full of hiss, and I would want something that  
had
line ins and outs, too.  I see those things as short-comings.  Pam.
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> 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.
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>
>> 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
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