Best digital voice recorder?

Question

where are the best places to buy in chicago? in people's opinion what has best worked for them? any particular model and brand? and moderately priced? and most definitiely be easy to use!!! any suggestions from tech people would be great!!!

Answer 1

If your main objective is recording personal notes, interviews, class lectures and meetings, the Olympus 300 series of digital voice recorders are top-rated in reviews. This model, the WS-311M, has an internal memory of 512MB -- enough for about 9 hours of best-quality recordings or approximately 140 hours at lower-quality settings. With a pop-out USB plug, the Olympus plugs into a USB port for downloading WMA recordings to a PC (or Mac equipped with Windows Media Player). One possible drawback is that you can't edit recordings. While the Olympus recorder can also double as an MP3 player, experts say it won't replace your iPod. The similar Olympus WS-321M (*est. $110) and WS-331M (*est. $145) have 1GB and 2GB of internal memory, respectively.

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