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Olympus VN 4100PC Digital Voice Recorder Review

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Revainrating 5 out of 5  
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Details

BrandOlympus
Hardware InterfaceUSB
Number of Batteries2 AAA batteries required. (included)
Item Dimensions LxWxH4 x 1.5 x 0.8 inches
Memory Storage Capacity0.26 GB
Item Weight0.5 Pounds
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Description of Olympus VN 4100PC Digital Voice Recorder

Robust and versatile digital voice recorder with USB PC link. Up to 144 hours recording time; 256 MB internal flash memory. Organize and store recordings in four separate folders,25-hour battery life. Specify particular point in recording or playback with index marks for easy reference.

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Revainrating 5 out of 5

Great Value: Portable AV

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…

Pros
  • Impressive
Cons
  • Boring Packaging

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Great little thing!

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…

Pros
  • Weight
Cons
  • Some change

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Big brother of the fantastically robust VN-480PC

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…

Pros
  • Several competitors
Cons
  • Unreliable