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Olympus WS-321M Digital Voice Recorder and WMA Music Player | 
 enlarge | Brand: Olympus
Category: CE
Buy New: See price in cart
New (20) Refurbished (1) from $62.50
Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 423
Format: Cd
Platform: Windows
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 6.3 x 2.3 x 9
MPN: WS-321M
Model: WS-321M
UPC: 050332400672
EAN: 0050332400672
ASIN: B000VDQAU0
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 2 days
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| Features:
 | Professional-grade digital voice recorder | | | Record up to 277 hours of digital audio or store up to 250 MP3 and WMA music files | | | 1 GB of internal flash memory | | | Can be used as a USB mass storage device | | | Convenient USB 2.0 direct design for fast data transfer |
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Product Description
With 1GB memory, the WS-321M provides flexibility for voice recording, data storage and high quality audio. The slim, stylish and pocket sized recorder will supply you with over 277 hours recording, it can be plugged directly into a PC USB port - without a USB cable - for quick and convenient downloading of files. 6 recording qualities for voice files - STXQ/STHQ/STSP/HQ/SP/LP Large, highly visible backlit LCD screen and tactile buttons SRS WOW and Tru Bass Simple menu-driven interface with five folders for file management (200 files per folder) Variable speed playback Lightweight & pocketsize
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| Customer Reviews: Read 18 more reviews...
 Fantastic sound, long battery life January 8, 2009
I have been using mini cassette recorders, digital voicepens, and PDAs to record lectures and my own thoughts for years. This one blows them all away, in terms of both usability and sound quality. It is my first Olympus, and it is clearly the product of generations of improvements they made. I have not bought a gadget in a long time that keeps giving me GOOD surprises instead of disappointments. Worries that a recording will be lost because the battery ran out during a recording are eliminated by the fact that: 1. there is a nice battery indicator that you can check before beginning. 2. It uses one AAA, which is easy to find anywhere, and easy to carry a spare. if you see the battery is low, just pause the recording, put it on Hold, and put in a new battery. 3. The battery lasts over 8 hours anyway. How many recordings require continuous 8 hours? That sure beats fumbling with the old 30-min minicassettes! The stereo internal mic is superb, even at the medium quality setting. The usability of the controls is excellent, and most functions can be done blind, without needing to look at tricky menus. At the highest quality setting, I still get quite a few hours of recordings onto the 1GB memory. And transferring talks and MP3s into and out of it is perfectly simple--slide off the battery compartment revealing a full-size USB, plug it into the computer, and it appears on the desktop as a removable disk (in Mac OS X). Drag & drop, unmount and yank, and go. They even included a little extension USB cable, in case the body of the recorder would bump into adjacent wires on your computer. You can put marks anywhere in a recording while recording or during playback. That makes it easy to find important places again. You can play back slowed or sped up by up to 50% (or less) to either blaze through a boring lecturer, or scrutinize one with complex concepts. You can lock the controls so you don't accidentally switch off during a recording, or switch it on in your pocket and waste the battery. The screen has a backlight for recording at dark performances or auditoriums, or playing back at night. I recommend getting an external mic if the noise of handling the buttons and the recorder is a problem. However, it does have very good "limiter" circuitry (ALC), reducing the volume of my fumbling and coughs so I don't blow my speakers out on playback. I am delighted how fast it activates using voice activation--Not a syllable is missed when set to 13-15. It does lose syllables if you have it set to "dictate" (low mic sensitivity) and voice activation, unless you put it right by your mouth. But on Conference (high mic sens.) it is just great. And the internal speaker is amazingly good--Loud and clear. Menus are intuitive, but they included a pretty good manual with it. Finally, it is very small and light, pocketable enough to be unobserved in your shirt pocket, but not so small as to be hard to operate the controls. Two design improvements I would make: put the mic and headphone jacks in two different places, and put the headphone jack away from the internal mics because rubbing the wire (if recording while wearing headphones) causes noise. This is about the only complaint I can think of. Amazing.
Works great! January 6, 2009
This was a gift for my wife, and she hasn't been able to use it for what she wants it for, but she loves how easy it is to use, and using it as an MP3 player (for now).
Great little recorder December 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very sensitive mic. If you can hear it with your ear, this thing will pick it up. I was supprised at the voice quality.
Would be perfect for students.
I use it to record church services and burn to cd.
Olympus Recorder December 27, 2008
good product, works great and does exactly what i needed in recording my voice classes, very easy to use
Fantastic recorder! November 18, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I needed a digital recorder to replace the bulky tape machines I had been using for the magazine article interviews I had done in recent years. I was concerned about the quality, performance and integrity of switching to digital but after reading some of the other reviews, I gambled on getting this Olympus unit. When it arrived, I was sure I had blundered in choosing it because of its diminutive size. Bottom line. It's probably the best piece of modern technology I own. Completely dependable and remarkably sensitive in its ability to pick up two way conversations even in a somewhat noisy environment. Disregard what others might have commented on about battery life. I've made about 40 files in three different indexes and I'm still on full charge. This is a worthy recorder even if your professional life depends on it.
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