Olympus DM-5 - Morphing from Digital Voice Recorder to Multi Function Device

The latest digital voice recorder from Olympus, the DM-5, has broken free of its voice recorder only genre and moved into a fully functional digital media device. Sure, like all Olympus recorders you get the best audio recording from the built in high quality stereo mics but with its monster 8Gb of internal memory it opens up the DM-5 to alot more uses.

Music player, file storage, image viewer, audio book player, text files proofreader and DAISY consortium file player the Olympus DM-5 breaks the voice recorder mould. With an emphasis on helping the vision impaired Olympus continue to make their devices as user friendly as possible with features like voice menu prompts.

The zoom mic is also a feature of this digital voice recorder, head over to our main blog for an extreme audio demo of the zoom mic in action recording passengers on a speeding train that could not be physically heard.

Compare Olympus DM-450 vs DM-550

If you can have a favourite digital voice recorder then the Olympus DM-450 or DM-550 would have to be it. Packed full of features, looks good, easy to use, superb audio pickup and recording and Mac and Windows compatible you really can't ask for much more.

Easily one of our best selling units the DM-450 and DM-550 can do it all; record meetings, lectures, conferences and for the journalists if you don't have one of these units you are not serious about your sound bites. For the nature lovers, those who like to record bird song or frog call the DM-550 with its linear PCM recording will appeal to you and the creative musicians amongst us the DM-550 will capture every chord in glorious high quality PCM and with adjustable record levels.

So what are the subtle differences between the Olympus DM-450 and DM-550 other than the colour of the shell? Head over to our latest blog post where we review the recorders and showcase their features.

Going Digital - Compare The Olympus Dictaphones

Olympus, the leaders in digital voice in Australia and most other parts of the world, have three digital dictaphones in their Pro and advanced range of digital voice recorders. Typically used by single speakers (people who dictate on their own) to record letters, notes etc these are popular in the medical and legal sectors.

Digital dictaphones differ from digital notetakers in that they can stop and start audio, emulating the old style tape recorders - whereas notetakers are designed to record with a defined start and stop, e.g. when recording interviews, meetings, lectures and focus groups.

In the Olympus range are three digital dictaphones - DS-2400, DS-3400 and DS-5000. In our latest blog post we compare these three in detail and explain the differences between each. We also offer some advice for people looking to upgrade from analogue tape dictaphones to digital.

In Australia these digital dictaphones are only available from authorised Olympus Pro dealers, look for this logo when shopping in Australia. Dictate Australia ( www.dictate.com.au ) is an Olympus Gold Pro Dealer.

Changing from analogue tape dictaphones to digital - some things you should know

If you have been using a tape dictaphone recorder for a few years, maybe a micro cassette or even a mini cassette the thought of changing and going digital my worry you. After all, the trusty cassette has been around for years why would you ever need to go digital?

Well in our latest blog we look at the top three digital dictaphones from Olympus and some compelling reasons as to why digital is not just better but is way ahead of your trusty tape dictaphone. The fact that analogue tape is being phased out, not just by Olympus but also the other players in the voice market should be reason enough to go digital. Rather than wait until forced to do so when your analogue dictaphone and its moving parts finally give up and can not be replaced.

We look at the full range of professional digital dictaphones from the DS-2400 to the DS-3400 and up to the top of the range DS-5000 and its more secure partner the DS-5000iD. We look at the differences between the three, most people are interested to read that the recording quality is exactly the same with all three recorders, its the features that beef up the recorders as you move up the chain.