Olympus DP-10 Digital Voice Recorder 142640 (Silver)

by Olympus

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 5.5 x 6.6 inches ; 8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B003XEC0I0
• Item model number: 142640
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #862 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
  • #17 in Electronics > Portable Audio & Video > Digital Voice Recorders
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 8, 2010

Product Description

Olympus DP-10 Digital Voice Recorder 142640 (Silver)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

91 of 91 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Some times cheep is good., August 23, 2011

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Blaise Duggins - See all my reviews

This review is from: Olympus DP-10 Digital Voice Recorder 142640 (Silver) (Office Product)

Being in law enforcment (retired) I have owned a lot of voice recorders going back to the days of tape. Most of the ones I have bought in the past were in the Hundred dollar range. This time I was broke but still needed a voice recorder. At $35.00 bucks I wasn't expecting much. Here is the pros and cons:
1. Easy to use big buttons mean you know when you hit record and stop.
2. The on/off switch is a switch not a button. so it doesn't turn on in your pocket and run the battery down when you are not using it.
3. The built-in microphone works not good but great. While in my shirt pocket with a notebook in front of it I walked around the room while my wife talked on the phone. I even went into the next room. and when I played it back it sounded like I was siting in front of her the whole time.
4. big speaker means not only you can hear the playback but the people around you can hear without straining.
Cons: no way to connect to a PC to down load the files.but it is simple enough to hold up to a microphone and record that way.
Buy this by all means!!!

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This recorder should win a Design Award, October 6, 2011

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A. Paprocki - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Olympus DP-10 Digital Voice Recorder 142640 (Silver) (Office Product)

It's hard to find a human-friendly product in this technological age, but this is one. Broad face gives you plenty of space for a big screen, big buttons, and a big speaker (it is as wide and as deep as an Olympus Pearlcorder tape recorder), although I wish it could have been thinner.

Design is really nice-looking, a rarity nowadays; the shape and the rounded corners are comfortable to hold, the width makes it stable in your hand. Button layout is wonderfully intuitive. Sound quality is very good for this kind of thing.

Every time you record something it gets saved as a "file", labelled by date then number. It works nicely, but I recommend you flush it out regularly because erasing recordings is a real project. They want to make sure that nothing gets erased accidentally and who can complain about that?

Some people want a computer port but that would ruin this device -- it excellent being what it is and if you want something else, you want something else. The headphone jack is a standard size (thank you) so if you need to record into your computer you can do it with an audio cable.

Mine survived its first drop test just fine.

34 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sweet Simplicity (well, not quite), February 26, 2011

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Paul Bellocq "pmbellocq" (Slidell, LA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Olympus DP-10 Digital Voice Recorder 142640 (Silver) (Office Product)

First off, since there were only two reviews when I first ordered this from Amazon, I read all of the comments on the only negative review. Thanks to the comments from Fazal Majid on the need for simplicity, I chose to replace my 10-year-old RCA voice recorder that finally died with this Olympus model. Who needs a USB port and all of those extra buttons? Not me for sure! I have absolutely no need to upload my voice notes up to my computer, and this is one of the few models without that feature.

I will be using this mostly while driving at interstate speeds to jot down ideas. The one weak link with this model is that the designers wanted to make sure that no one accidentally deleted a file, so it takes five buttons pressed in quick succession just to delete one file: Erase, Rewind, Play, Rewind, Play. Well, it looks like I won't be deleting any of the bad ideas while driving. My old RCA was about half this size and even simpler to use. I do like the volume control and larger screen, as well as the larger Play, Stop, and Record buttons. I can't wait to test the microphone settings while driving with the windows down. And yes, I actually had to read the "book" to find out how to operate it. Don't even think of skipping the part to set the time and date, which the instructions are not that clear on how to do this later.