... It is what it is ... expensive with flaws ....

Well so ... it is expensive, but unfortunately you get nowhere cheaper voice recorders, which deserve the name, but if you consider what you get here offered for 280 euros, that's almost a joke, but unfortunately it is so, that cheaper recorders (so-called. notetaker) the possibility is missing to edit dictations, and so this device is for oral draft dictations priced "no alternative" ...

For device itself - it does what it should, but not much more. Postitiv to mention is the accompanying playback software for the PC, and the possibility that this this is that previously dictated dictations using "focus independent" Shortcuts to transkripieren (ie "write off"), in the F9 as Play / Pause button, F7 as is rewind and fast forward as F8 realized, and these buttons also work directly from Word. There may be other shortcuts are configured to do so. Unfortunately, there is a conversion to MP3 ... for the dictations which are normally present in ds2 format can be at least in the WAV, WMA, DSS and DSS Pro - Convert Format ... well, at least the ...

But back to the device itself, what it is, it can ... well, so ... So fairly concrete terms:
- One can rewind and slip "crosstalk"
- You can finish a dictation at any time and at the end go back later,
- You can überspreichen the middle of a word dictation, which creates the risk that if you speak too long required text is deleted
- You can insert in the middle of a dictation paragraphs without the text is then deleted
- To fix passages right in dictation in which you mark the beginning and end.
- You can set each dictation to 32 index marks

- You can not divide a dictation into two parts :-(
- You can not: Two dictations together :-(

On the right side of the device, the slide switch is with the positions of Rec, Stop, Play and Play can be resiliently moved to Rev, and the switch goes on release automatically in position play. Here I would have liked the Rückspulmithören, just like the Vorspulmithören also, a better - or even an imitation of tape dictation desired, with, the desired band positions much more intuitive drive, as in this digital conversion, which in the "Originalgequake" of cassette players coils unfortunately can not give ... well, maybe a matter of habit ....

... And two criticisms ...

1. The labeling of the slide switch Rec, Stop, Play, Rev is inexplicably located on the back of the device, where the user can look but usually from the front of the unit. So I got me in the early days more delete them accidentally passages because I had provided of the Listen switch is not pulled, but pressed, or I vigorously from Play to Stop pressed've accidentally, and thereby came to Rec. The inscription on the front I then added on a paper shreds, I've stuck with scotch tape.

2. As written in 1, it can happen very easily that one on unintentional mistake or to REC, and this clears anything. It would have been nice if there had been here again an additional tactile assurance, where you would have, for example in the slide switch nor a pushbutton integrated to block accidental pushing for Rec.

Despite the good will, but more than 4 points are there not inside, I would even be almost inclined to give only 3 points in all these deficiencies and the still high price of nearly 300 euros, and the little that is offered for addition; it is only due to the fact that useful voice recorders represent a niche market that is exploited here priced because "normally" should such a device not more than 80 ... cost 90 euros.