Olympus DS330 Digital Voice Recorder

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Olympus DS330 Digital Voice Recorder

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Pros

The operability of the unit is superb. The rew rewind function is cool, counting back on the lcd timer to any spot along the way. The only downside is that i have worn out several of the units.

The unit is customizable, so you can change folder names and assign comments to files. It is easy to use and downloads flawlessly to my imac. Plugging in the recorder to my computer, and downloading the audio files could not be any easier.

The interviews become evidentiary in nature. It comes with an external microphone jack and external earphone jack. I use the recorder with a phone recording controller (from radio shack) i use it with win 7 just as a microphone though as olympus has n... Read More

It fits comfortably in the palm of my very large hands. The erase button is also easily accessible, even though it is less prominent. The software has an option to delete file after upload.

Cons

Buyer's beware. It is windows vista compatible, not windows 7 compatible. Olympus doesn't give away an advanced sound editing software, but why the basic driver is not freely available?

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Quality

5 hours at good quality, usb interface with your computer.

The quality of sound on this is really quite incredible.

(the longest recording i have made in the high quality setting was about 10 hours.

5 hours of record time in standard quality mode you could dictate 30 patients before having to upload.

Price

The price is a little higher than a lot of units, but i sense it's worth it (particularly if you're after the advanced features).

Shipping

The files are sent by ftp to my transcriptionist who gets it back to me the next day.

I sent files to three different transcriptionists and all were able to read the dss files exported by the device without problem.

Packaging/appearance

The olympus ds-330 is a very solid digital voice recorder, packing a lot of functionality into a small package (as an aside, so... Read More

Competitiveness

I have had problems with other brands that just do not appear with this recorder!

I use it with win 7 just as a microphone though as olympus has not offered win 7 drivers for the program that works mostly on xp.

I liked it with xp because the files sizes were smaller than most mp3 and similar voice files.

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This product had a total of 42 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 1 2024.