Hi!
I have an Olympus DM4 and DM7.
I've written to the list regarding these machines at different times but
up until now I've just not had the time to play so this morning when I
had some time to myself and saw the Olympus DM7 in the drawer doing
nothing I decided it was certainly time to explore the features and
functions the DM7 had to offer.
I'm a little disappointed that the DM& doesn't seem to be as good a
build as the DM4 was and its a little bigger but still nice enough to
hold in the hand and certainly small enough to fit into the shirt pocket.
At first glance the multitude of buttons on this recorder were
off-putting but patience is a virtue and the learning curb wasn't steap
so getting used to these extra buttons on the DM7 was a piece of cake.
Some annoyances are there in the feature set, it seems you cannot set
manual recording levels with the DM7, the DM7 doesn't have an atenuator
for the microphones etc so - to my way of thinking - the DM& is really a
recorder meant in the main for dictation purposes? Perhaps someone can
straighten me out on those points.
There can be no denying however the DM7's outstanding attributes as a
player, the sound is better than that of the DM4 owing to the bigger
speaker I presume.
The battery holds it charge in the DM7 and doesn't go flat when left as
it does with the DM4, that alone was a plain pain in the but as I had to
keep resetting the DM4's time every time a battery went flat or when I
changed a battery.
Anyway I'm still to decide which I'll use as my main recorder, the DM4
or the DM7.
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