Amazon.com has the Olympus DM-520 Digital Voice Recorder for $146.54. With free shipping, that's a $1 drop and the lowest price we could find.
The DM-520 features 4GB of internal memory, a microSDhc card slot, improved stereo microphone, voice-guided menus, and can record and play in MP3, WMA and wav file formats. It can also charge via USB.
Blind Cool Tech
has a podcast demonstrating this recorder.
Category: Portable Devices
although the dM520 doesn't have the extra blindness-related features of the DM4, as a recorder, you can't beat it. The battery life is way longer than the DM4, so it's perfect for capturing lots of audio when you can't get to a computer to charge the batteries. Plus, the recording quality is far superior to the older Olympus models. The internal microphones are great, and the built-in limitor, which you can turn off if you want from the voice-guided menus, works very well. another thing I love about it is that, if you turn off the limitor, turn the recording level all the way down, and set the mic sensitivity to its lowest setting, you can successfully record from a line source without distortion.
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