Olympus VN 4100PC Digital Voice Recorder Review

The Olympus VN-4100PC offers great value for money. It's ideal for tasks like recording a lecture or meeting, making oral to-do lists, rehearsing a speech or presentation, and so on. Some reviewers say it doesn't record music very well and the playback is mono, and they're right. In fact, it's not intended for professional stereo recording. As with all machines, you must live within your design limits. The VN-4100PC has some very nice features that make it a great value for the money. This…

What a great recorder! Incredibly small! The size of a small cell phone! Like the VCR, it has 4 recording modes; XHQ, {best playback and over 11 hours of recording, then HQ with around 24 hours of recording, then SP, 72, and then LP, 144 hours! I think you would use this setting on a slow boat to China! It also has four folders, A, B, C, D, which can contain around 100 individual entries. This means if you are in folder A and press record and talk for 3 minutes, it will be A-1. Pressing record…

I had used an almost identical little brother of this recorder, the VN-480PC, very extensively for over five years and wanted to upgrade to it, the largest version of this Olympus recorder with exactly the same range of functions. While the total recording time of the VN-480PC is just under three hours at maximum "HQ" resolution, it is almost twelve hours at maximum resolution. XHQ setting. I wanted more capacity and the possibility of slightly better sound quality than the already excellent…