Olympus DS-2300 Handheld Digital Voice Recorder

Borrowed one from work and liked it so much, decided to buy one. Very easy to load programme onto PC, straightforward to use, footpedal is easy to control and to forward/ rewind recording. Seems compatible with majority (?all) olympus ds recorders. If you have recordings to transcribe, this will really make your life much easier and seriously speed up time taken to type up your recordings.

I need a dictaphone for letters etc and having finally pensioned off my last Phillips tape machine when it went phut! I bought a digital setup about a year ago which used the Olympus DS330 as the recorder. All was OK for a while but the DS330 is tiny and the sound quality awful. My secretary started complaining and so I (foolishly) bought a DS30 voice recorder - amazing sound quality but it is NOT a dictaphone. There is no rewind or insert edit facilities. You turn it on and record. The DS2300 is a better more robust version of the DS300. Just perfect for what I need. Dislikes? Olympus could have supplied the thing with a case as they did with the DS300. Where the hell do I buy one? It is not healthy for the machine to jog around my pocket or briefcase with the silver finish getting rubbed like a Genie's lamp all the time! Also the rewind facility is a bit slow but that seems to be a feature of digital. You can't beat the speed of tape hissing backwards over the capstans. Ah! those were the days.

I have used this item before and it is an excellent piece of kit. Reliable and clear and easy to use.

Olympus comes up with the goods again with this little recorder unit. Small (but not microscopic), easy to use controls with flexible storage and excellent battery life. Though it can't use the larger capacity XD cards available today, the cards it can use can be picked up for peanuts. Have a few on hand and just hook up to your pc and download for archiving.