Olympus WS-311M Digital Voice Recorder and WMA Music Player | List Price: $129.00
Discount Price: $76.00
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Brand: Olympus
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Features: - Record up to 138 hours of quality stearo voice recordings
- Doubles as a USB storage device
- Listen to up to 120 MP3 and WMA music files while WOW XT Technology provides rich bass and three-dimensional sound during playback.
- From personal notes to school lectures to business-related meetings and music galore, everything sounds great in clear stereo sound from the built-in stereo microphone.
Excellent [Posted on 2008-10-18]
The Olympus WS-311 works great. The internal mic is not the best, but an external one improves sound quality immensely. (I use it primarily to record mini-lectures for my students.) I am not a big gadget guy, but it is nice to have a single device which records and plays audio + stores data like a flash drive.
Excellent! [Posted on 2008-10-28]
I just bought 3 of these for the guys at our office who do sales and recruiting and want to record their pitches for training. The sound quality using the built in mic is very good, maybe too good. It was picking up conversations across the office while recording a pitch! Plug this puppy in directly to a phone or computer to record from and you can eliminate all ambient the background stuff. My wife wants one of these so she can record record our daughter saying all her crazy little 2yr old sayings. One reason she likes it is that its very simple to use, you do not need to be a techie to use it. Once you have recorded just pull the bottom off and plug straight into a USB port, hows that for convenience? I havent tried any of the other recorders out there so there may be something better, but as someone savvy and particular about sound i.e. home theater, car speaker etc. the quality from this unit is excellent, you can stop your search here.
Amazing Device [Posted on 2008-10-30]
This little recorder is awesome! The ability to have so much recording time and store the file on my computer for future reference is just what I needed. I highly recommend it.
Olympus audio goes bad [Posted on 2008-10-31]
Most of the Olympus audio products have lost quality since they abandoned the 240 series. By increasing the time in the voice recorders, the quality of the sound has deteriorated to the point where they can't be used for capturing real sounds. The distortion level is so terrible that even as voice recorders, they are garbled. Where as the VN 240 series was a great bargain, the later models are largely a waste of time for anyone interested in real sound.
Fine for anything not requiring quality sound [Posted on 2008-11-04]
I'm a photojournalist and had heard good things about the WS-3** line of recorders for audio slideshows. Very much not so. The internal mic is fine for dictation and conference calls but leaves much to be desired for anything even close to what's required for slideshows and online media. Terrible background noise turns a moderately quite coffee shop into a cacophony of sound.
I also tried using a Sony ECM-DS30p mic on the recorder and, although the sound quality is slightly better, the background noise just gets worse. The built in noise reduction turns voices and sounds tinny but does little to correct the issue with the dominating hiss. I've also tried a Sony ICD-UX80 which, while still having some hiss, is much much better with regards to background noise control and levels regulation.
I'll probably either go with a Sony or figure out a way to carry a larger, heavier but better sounding recorder.
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