New Olympus Voice Recorders For September - WS-650S, WS-750M, WS-760M & DM-5

The Olympus ride continues with yet another spate of new voice recorders about to hit Australia. This time the WS gets another revamp and the DM series adds another friend. Say g'day to the WS-650S, WS-750M, WS-760M and the DM-5.

In the WS series we see these small super high quality recorders just get better and better. Audio recording quality was already stunning, the new recorders sport a new stereo mic location on the unit for even better audio pickup, yet more memory, high quality linear PCM recording and FM radio and FM radio recording. Also being added are micro SD slots for even more storage, if you need it.

As memory gets cheaper we are seeing the continued trend of throwing more into your digital voice recorder. This is not really required for recording voice but starts the transform the recorder into a multi use device by adding music/podcast/audio book playback and of course a USB mass storage device. With the additional space linear PCM recording which produces large size fbut very high quality .wav files is becoming more common.

Briefly:

• WS-650S - 2Gb, no micro SD, no FM radio, no PCM, .mp3 & .wma recording - replaces WS-450S
• WS-750M - 4Gb, micro SD, no FM radio, linear PCM recording, .mp3 & .wma recording, music/podcast/audio book playback - replaces WS-550M
• WS-760M - 8Gb, micro SD, FM radio, linear PCM recording, .mp3 & .wma recording, music/podcast/audio book playback - replaces WS-560M

RRPs:

• WS-650S - $169 incl. GST
• WS-750M - $229 incl. GST
• WS-760M - $269 incl. GST

All recorders should be widely available towards the end of September or early October 2010.

More information on the DM-5 to follow shortly.