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Olympus Pearlcorder J300 (3 Hours) Handheld Cassette Voice Recorder
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$79.50 to $109.99
The J300 Microcassette® recorder is compact, stylish and loaded with features. Voice actuator begins recording at the sound of a voice...
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The J300 Microcassette® recorder is compact, stylish and loaded with features. Voice actuator begins recording at the sound of a voice - and stops when the voice does. Fast play mode lets you listen 25% faster than at normal speed. And the dual tape speed function can record three hours of voice on one 90-minute Microcassette tape. And because of its small size and ergonomic design, its virtually effortless to carry around. Nothings impossible.
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5 Reviews from Shopping.com
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OK at first but then,not as good as we had hoped
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Pros: Compact, easy for kids to use, fair recording quality.
Cons: Battery compartment and cassette door malfunctioned in less than a year.
The Bottom Line:
If you're not letting kids use this it could be OK. We thought it was a bit overpriced considering it didn't last a year without problems
We bought this little recorder for our son who's 9 to use in school as he has problems with hand writing. He used it daily to record book reports or other written assignments, then I scribe them out for him. His teacher had control of it so it didn't become a toy nor was it mis handled.
At first, it was running just fine. It was light and easy for him to use and he really enjoyed the voice activated feature so he didn't have to push buttons all the time. But about two months after we bought it (January '04), it just stayed on. That is, unless we removed the batteries, it hissed with the air sound, like it's still on. We tried everything to get it to stop but it still wouldn't shut off. It's rather annoying and takes about 24 to 30 hours to kill the batteries if they are left in with the door closed. So it became a use at home only recorder. My son would loose the batteries or forget to take them out at school and it was starting to be a problem.
This past December, We needed to start applying pressure to the door of the tape compartment in order for the tape to run. As far as I know, it hasn't been dropped or abused in any way. Maybe we just got a dud model, but after paying over $35.00 for it I wasn't impressed with the durability for being less than a year old.
Using it to scribe from is not bad. I use a head set that requires a small adapter when I'm transcribing. It does has a lot of background air that can get annoying but I guess that's to be expected from such a small device. I enjoy the pause switch and the ease in which I can rewind with the slider button as my son talks pretty fast.
We haven't used it for anything other than hand held voice recording for short periods so I can't speak to overall recording quality of lectures or use of the external microphone option.
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