Customer Reviews

Panasonic RR-QR240 Tapeless Digital Audio Recorder

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Great, sensitive electret condensor mic. Many, many features and good storage. I love the little jog-dial for finding messages quickly. I looked at five different models from four manufacturers (bought them all). Over an extended evaluation period, this one rose to the top as the best for note taking. Its one of the few that starts recording as soon as you hit the record button. Some (RCA 34000 for example) have slight delay and you lose a word or two.

It is NOT a dictation machine. If you're serious about gathering volumes of text to transcribe, get the Olympus DS-150 or better yet - get a regular tape machine and save yourself some money.

I've used it to successfully record several telephone conversations, something I never thought of doing until I got it.

I liked the Olympus VN-180 also, but it had more background noise than the Panasonic.

LOVE the portability and size, love not having to worry about tapes. Great for quick notes. But if you try to record long conversations (I'm a speechwriter and record input from my clients), the controls are so sensitive that you can end up wasting time through failed attempts to scroll back to earlier dialogue (ending up in a different file, instead, and having to re-start.) A terrific invention, but it truly seems better for fast "to do" notes than for long text files you later wish to process.

What a great step forward! The micro tape machines never made it for note taking. This item is the size of a business card and half an inch thick. It drops into my shirt pocket with my Rex Pro and a supply of business cards -- all without making the pocket droop.

Quality of sound is fine to great at standard and high quality modes. I haven't ever come close to using all 396 individual note files in 4 folders. Driving in the car it easily comes out of my pocket to catch a note. Notes can be shifted from folder to folder. When I arrive in the office in the morning I find I have at least 10 notes that came to mind overnight. And, (using another folder) I remember to tell my spouse those things I was forgetting before! Long notes can be divided to capture the essence and drop the chaf. Battery usage is very low. There are more features than I find in the product descriptions; for instance you can scan the first 5 seconds of every message in a folder.

I wanted to buy based on what was said by users on Amazon ...!

I bought a Panasonic RR-QR240 over a year ago and I
haven't left home without it. First of all, the microphone
generates a clear and crisp signal, yet is sensitive
enough to be able to record people speaking 6 feet away.

Second, the recording time is one of the best one around even
though this product is no longer the newbie on the market.

Third, and some of you may not believe this (I wouldn't if
I it hadn't happen to me): last night, I was cleaning clothes
and ACCIDENTALLY WASHED my RR-QR240. I didn't realize this
until I heard strange knocks in the dryer...
I took it out of the dryer, threw out the batteries, opened up the case,
and proceded to gently dry the electronic components.
After leaving the unit to dry up overnight, I put in fresh
batteries this morning, and while my previous recordings
were lost, my unit STILL WORKED!

I just wish other products in the high-tech market were
this robust!

Now here's a product that anyone can use. Smaller than a pack of cigarettes and half an inch thin. It records crystal clear sound using intergrated circuits. It has a voice activated feature so the 66 minutes of HQ sound are not wasted. If you need standard sound quality you get 266 minutes (almost 5 hours) of recording. The unit has an extremely sensitive microphone so you can leave it anywhere and pick up what's being said and you don't even have to be there. Very undercover if you know what I mean. It has a clock and various folders so you can store your recordings by category and priority. One folder might be where you keep something for a long time. Another folder might be where you keep messages that will soon be erased. You can divide messages and store what you want. The machine automatically starts a new message without ever 'writing' over an old one. You can create up to 396 new messages and then scroll thru all of them numerically or simply by listening. Simply amazing. Be careful, it's high-tech enough where you can get into trouble by listening and recording things you shouldn't be. By the way, it's totally quiet.

Wanting to move up from a Panasonic mini-cassette recorder that I was very satisfied with, I started looking at Panasonic digital recorders.

The device records anything from notes to lectures crisply and clearly, especially at High Quality mode but surprisingly well in Standard (SP) mode. Much improved from the mini-cassette, from my use, recording on this device in Long Play (LP) mode provides equivalent clarity as my mini-cassette recorder in 2.4 speed. The VAS system is very useful during lectures to eliminate those periods of silent notetaking, but distressingly shares the habit of cutting off the first bit every continuation from a pause, as my VAS mini-cassette recorder did.

The device's design is made for ease of use, and after 5-10 minutes, you've pretty much mastered how to use the device. However, the multi-function wheel on the upper right corner of the device gets a little irritating since it's in an awkward position, but the wheel is used for most tasks, such as scroll, select, and play.

Nevertheless, the device is an extreme pleasure to use. The quality of the recordings is excellent, and the microphone, when set to High-pickup, is great. The size of the device makes it easy enough to slip into a front pocket. Understandibly the cost is a little high, but if you can afford it and you'd like to try something with better quality sound, this is an excellent product to consider.

I have to admit that I am a Panasonic-Fan since I've bought my first Panasonic-Speaker-Phone 12 years ago. But this device - WOW! I can not agree with the opinion that it is over-engineered - if you read the manual and you use this device every day you will get so used to it that you will never leave the house without it again. I always had the problem that I was doing one thing and while I was doing it I had an idea about something else - knowing that I might forget this new idea I dropped the thing I was doing to do something about the new Idea... Result: I started a lot of things and never finished anything. Now, when I get a new Idea, I simply grab the device from my belt and record it. Every night I go over my recordings and make a To-Do list out of it. I have increased my income (I am a web developer) ONLY because of this device (much faster and hadier to make notes than with a palm pilot!) by about 12,000 dollars over the last 3 months! One of my best buys EVER!

Just put it on the ground where there is a mysterious bird song, or next to the bird feeder, and let it record in Hi Quality mode for a hour. Or carry it on walks and bike rides to catch that bird song that's been bugging you for years, and carry it home to compare with Peterson or Stokes CDs.

There's no bass response to speak of (good for birds) and the highs are excellent and there's absolutely no mechanical noise of course.

Save short segments you want to remember in another folder, and do it all again.

Attaching a length of day-glo tape to the hand-strap hole will not only help you find it in the field, but also helps find it in the house, where it instantly disappears in the clutter otherwise.

I bought it to record 4 hours of Imus each day, but the low quality mode isn't quite up to it. The other two modes are okay.

It uses 3.5mm mono jacks for input and output, to record off the air or play back through your computer or stereo.

I have a Panasonic RR-QR240 and a RR-QR80. The QR240 was purchased in Oct 2000 and the QR80 was purchased in August 2001. The QR240's speaker went out. I had to put a headset on it to hear messages. I purchased the QR80 to fill in while the QR240 was being repaired. It was promptly returned to me by a service center out of Georgia. Their repair lasted about three days. So I put it in the drawer and continued to use the QR-80. Today the microphone when out on it. So now I have two of them that broke. In just over a year I have spent about $200 on units that do not work. Try a Sony.

its the best digital recorder i have come across it records and saves battery but there is no way to transfer the recording from digital to tape.