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 - Great Little Gizmo!What a cool recorder! Unbelievably small! About the size of a small cell phone! Like a video recorder it has 4 record modes; XHQ, {the best play back and over eleven hours of recording time, then HQ with about 24 hours of recording time, and then SP, 72 and then LP at 144 hours!!!!!! I guess you'd use this setting on a slow boat to China! It also has four folders, A,B,C,D. which can hold about 100 separate entries. That means if you are in A folder, and push record and speak for 3 minutes that would be A-1. When you push record again it creates A-2. and so forth and so on. When you want to play back your recordings you can go thru them 1, 2, 3 or click ahead to 10 or 26 or 100! Also, you can jump or select a different folder from the dedicated button {folder/index} and record and listen to whatever different subject you spoke about in those other three folders with their 100 entry possibilities! I think the entries are limited to amount of time remaining in XHQ to LP. After playing back in XHQ and HQ, I didn't even try SP or LP because XHQ is so much better than HQ that I would not care for the lower quality play back in SP/LP modes. Also, you must know that in XHQ at over eleven hours of recording time, which is the equivalent of, say, eleven cassette or micro cassette tapes, that that is a WHOLE LOT of PLAYING BACK TIME! Which is about 2.75 hours for each folder or more than eleven straight hours in one folder! OUCH! My poor ears! Just who could handle 24, 72 or 144 hours??? Sound quality is very acceptable to me, though not as good as a larger speaker on even a micro cassette player, but hey I knew that going into this. But it's pretty good and it functions well and I have no trouble understanding what is being played back! I tried it at 16' away, talking at a normal pitch and could understand every word I spoke without straining to listen! But the room was quite and still. Usually a person would just hold it in their hand like any other hand held recorder, right? This model, the VN 4100PC has software and you can download all of your "tapes" onto a hard drive. Be aware that in XHQ a 2 or 3 minutes record can be 1.5 MB. So one hour might be 45 MB? You'll need a BIG hard drive if your intent it to download your conversation with Goddard! But, you can edit if you have time. Playback with my small Dell speakers on my XP PRO was very impressive from OLYMPUS software wav playback! It Really Sounds Great! Again... what really caught my eye was just HOW SMALL this puppy is! It must be 3 times smaller than my micro cassette player and I will not hesitate to carry it with me most of the time! But I have no intention of sitting thru hours of recordings on this or my PC. I use it to catch pithy sayings that I utter after enlightening moments of clarity! These are rather small in length, ha ha, so at eleven hours I would have to have a revelation from the mountain top to use all that time up! Very pleased and very good price too! Rating:  - easy to usea very good product, easy to use, can record with reasonably clearity even in noisy places. I use it for ethnographic interviews and it has helped me a lot... though sometimes it would be better to listen to what you recorded on the computer if the environment in which you recorded interviews were noisy. I also got the wrong product(the VN-4100 one) for the first time, but then it came after I reported the problem. they have different numbers on the top right of the package, the size of package and color of the recorder are all different, I see many people have had the wrong one mailed to them, hope Amazon can distinguish the two better in the future. The only inconvenient part is that the USB is not attached to it, so every time you need to put the records on a PC, you'll need the thing(cord?) that came in the package. Rating: - great productThis works great in the classroom, especially since my professors talk way too fast most of the time and i can't get down all the notes i wanted to. This way, i can listen in if i'm confused about something that was talked about weeks ago, and it has a good quality of sound. came perfect, and fast. Rating: - excellent productHave used Olympus recorders (capable of downloading to PC) for some years. All have been excellent, with major improvements in capacity. Probably a bit easier to use than earlier models. By far and away Best buy for the money. The high priced with internal USB is great for those who do not need to earn their own living or have some strange need for vast quantities of info to be stored on a device not really engineered for other than use as a recorder. I have seen these other devices, but saw no reason to purchase. Rating:  - Simple recorderSimple voice recorder, have the standard functionality that you need for a lecture recording. Enough memory so you do not have to do daily offloading.
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