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 Handy, fair fidelity, needs tweaks to PC software March 10, 2008
B. Bush (New Jersey)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
The Olympus VN4100PC is a very handy recorder for lecture or personal
notes, at a currently very affordable price.
Pros -- compact, built-in mic very sensitive on HI,
uses 2AAA batteries (can be rechargeables), long battery life,
long recording capacity, listen thru speaker or headphones,
intuitive button layout. Easy transfer to PC of all files in a "folder"
(but be sure you buy VN4100PC).
Mediocre -- audio quality; file format undocumented, but apparently
4-bit adaptive PCM, also known as .ima; at XHQ setting is 22 kHz mono.
XHQ files sound better to me on my PC than HQ files though
both take about 600KByte/min. When transferred to Windows, files have
.WAV extension. They play correctly on WindowsMediaPlayer etc.
and even on my Sansa MP3 player. I'd prefer MP3 files,
which might have better fidelity at same file size and
could have useful ID3 tags.
Cons - Olympus Digital Wave Player software installs and runs okay
(Win XP) but lacks obvious features. Files copied from Wave Player
PC target folders to other Windows folders are datestamped with
time of transfer, not time of recording, and index marks are lost.
There should be options to specify target folders, rename files by
time of recording, and break files at index marks.
(To be fair, Wave Player software itself displays time of recording
and can skip to index mark.)
Software should offer option to convert IMA format into MP3 and to more
standard WAV formats, including 44khz 16bit 2chan for transfer to CD/R.
 BEWARE OF THE BAD REVIEWS October 27, 2007
bad movie lover (nj usa)
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
all the bad reviews this product has recived are based on the seller shipping the wrong item . any reviews for the product itself are good . i use it to record lectures and its great. i recommend it
 Do not buy this product for dictation, it is terrible February 26, 2008
M. Napier (San Francisco, CA)
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
I beseech you not to buy this product. It is terrible. I have had one for four months. I have tried everything to make it work for recording for dictation. It picks up static, it does not have a standard interface to work with other recording equipment so your recordings are lost. You can not tell if the recorder is recording...aka there is no graph that is linked to the decibel level that is being recorded. A light will be on, but this does not correlate to the machine actually recording sound.
Please do not buy this product.
 Watch your Product Number! June 7, 2007
R. Kistler (SE MI)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Watch the Product Number: shipment was quick & arrived well within estimated delivery time. ALAS: Amazon sent VN4100 instead of VN4100PC - and we did not notice until after opening package & making test recordings: then we noted that there was No USB port....
Amazon took Return Request online, and Assume that that will be processed Ok
(or perhaps not due to open box???) - but now we need to start order process all over again, as Amazon no longer has the 4100PC in stock.
(Other vendors on Amazon's site do - but price is higher & problem of mis-shipping 4100 instead of 4100PC is apparently a problem....)
Made a couple of short recordings using HQ mode - next to highest - before realizing NOT a "PC" unit, and they sounded just fine, at least for Voice Notes. Was unable to test PC Connection / file transfer, so left at 3 stars: probably would give VN4100 "4" stars, if that had been item ordered...
Battery life ? August 5, 2007
turbobike (Torrington, Connecticut)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Battery life much shorter than advertised.
When downloading to computer, it only creates format that is usuable on the computer -- won't play anywhere else ! I worked around this by making CD on PC, then going to MAC, importing it, then making new CD. (which then plays in car stereo, walkman, etc.
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