Remanufactured Olympus DW-90 Digital Voice Recorder (Champagne Gold)

by Olympus

Product Details

Product Manual [562kb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0009N5O6I
• Item model number: DW90
• Batteries: 2 AAA batteries required. (included)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #133,994 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Color: Remanufactured Olympus DW-90 Digital Voice Recorder (Champagne Gold)

From the Manufacturer

Uniquely designed, the Remanufactured Olympus DW-90 Digital Voice Recorder is a head-turner that cleverly combines form with function. The DW-90's distinctive appearance is attributable to the powerful built-in directional microphone, which is capable of recording speech in high-audio quality from up to six meters away. With a maximum recording capacity of 90 minutes, this model lets voice files be saved in three folders with room for 100 files in each. A scheduler function with up to 20 individually recordable alarm messages gives this Olympus notetaker added appeal. Weighing only 65 grams (including batteries), the ultra-light DW-90 transfers your data directly from the recorder to your PC via an easy-to-use USB cable and is powered by two (included) AAA batteries.

What's in the Box
The Olympus DW-90, two AAA batteries, a CD with Digital Wave Player software, earphones, a USB cable, and a strap with stand.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

92 of 94 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Handy, lots of features, not enough space, October 30, 2001

By 

"themathguy" (Lebanon, OR United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Olympus DW-90 Digital Voice Recorder (Champagne Gold) (Office Product)

I really like this little recorder. It's quite small, has lots of features like 3 folders, voice activation, hold (so you don't accidentally press a button), unidirectional/omnidirectional recording (record from one direction or all directions), and good control over the files. It also has very easy-to-use USB connectivity to download the files to a computer. I has everything I need, except for one big problem. As the previous reviewer noted, the LP recording mode is hard to make out what's said. The best way of describing it is that most of the consonants are lost. Instead of hearing "Jim is going to the kitchen" you hear "Chim ith going do da gitchen", which makes LP mode rather useless. Which leaves me with SP (33 min) and HQ (22 min) modes. Don't get me wrong, SP sounds really good and HQ sounds crystal clear, but they just aren't enough time. I am a student and got this mainly for taking notes in class. And when a class is 50 minutes or more, 33 minutes of recording time just won't cut it. I'm sure that this recorder would work great for someone dictating, but it just doesn't cut it for students.

53 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, March 9, 2003

By 

David Sheppard "Novelsmithing" (Healdsburg, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Olympus DW-90 Digital Voice Recorder (Champagne Gold) (Office Product)

I purchased the Olympus DW-90 Voice Recorder to record ambient sounds for some web work I'm doing. I found the DW-90 easy to operate after browsing the manual. Loading the included software was a non-item. Once you record a sound you just plug the unit into a USB port and the software automatically pops up on the computer screen. You then push one button and it uploads the file or files to the computer. Fast, simple. You select the file (it records in .wav file format) with your mouse and hit the play button and there you are. I'm into recording sounds of doors creaking, birds chirping, water dripping, etc. I record outdoors and in, on the hiking trail, voices in the park, the crackle of a fire in a fireplace, children's voices. In short, I record anything that might make a digital scene come to life. I also use the sounds for link buttons: the ping of a pencil on a drinking glass or china, the crumpling of an aluminum can, fist on a tabletop. Once I've uploaded the sound, I open it in my sound editing software (Sound Forge) and go to work on it. The sound that comes from the DW-90 in HQ mode is crystal clear. Since it's designed to record voices, I was worried that it might muffle background noise, but found this to not be true. Everything the ear hears, the DW-90 records (not the same frequency response, of course), which can at times be a problem for me. Human hearing is selective, so we don't ordinarily hear the refrigerator running or whir of our computer's fan. But they will all be there when you replay a DW-90 sound file. The DW-90 is smaller than it looks in the pictures, ~3.5 inches in length, and extremely light weight, so you can take it anywhere. But it definitely has its limitations. File storage volume is one. Just make sure that prior to purchasing the unit you evaluate its specifications against your requirements. I'm immensely pleased with it, but then I'm not trying to record a one-hour lecture in HQ mode (limit 22 min) or LP mode (limit 90 min) where so many of the reviewers here on Amazon have complained about sound quality.

38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A tiny, nifty little recorder, but ..., October 4, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Olympus DW-90 Digital Voice Recorder (Champagne Gold) (Office Product)

Highly recommended if you need no more than 33 minutes of recording time. Sound quality is reasonably good in HQ or SP mode, but recording time in these modes is limited to about 22 minutes & 33 minutes, respectively. Sound quality in the LP mode (90 minutes recording time) is so bad that this mode is really unusable for anything more than brief notes spoken directly into the microphone -- and even for that, the quality is "iffy" at best. PC software works well, and USB file transfers are quick and easy.

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