🎙️ Olympus WS-200S 128 MB Digital Audio Recorder Review

Built-in USB saves time by not fiddling with cables. Windows XP sees the recorder as another disk with files, it's very convenient to transfer recordings. There is a wide choice of quality levels – lower quality for long lectures, higher quality for language courses. Tracking files is also easy. There are many audio editing programs that can remove long silences, BUT. Using menus, buttons, and switches can be tedious if you don't have mouse fingers. For most people, the device is almost too…

I bought this little voice recorder for a course I attended for two days and it exceeded my expectations. The recording was crystal clear and captured the lecturer perfectly. I would take breaks and then start again between 20 minutes and an hour and a half later. I put each entry in its own section so that when I downloaded it to my computer a few days later I knew exactly where to go in class to see something I didn't understand. I was at the front of the class but it would have been just as…

This device gives you over 4 hours of stereo (or double the mono) "HQ" recording in Windows Media format and allows you to transfer files by dragging and Drop Windows without the need to install and use the shockingly primitive software used by SONY and others for their recorders. I like it. HQ sound is great for recording voice notes or classroom lectures. Tends to be heavy at high frequencies. I've been using mine fairly heavily for about 8 months and it's becoming very unreliable - the…