Philips DVT5000/00 4 GB Digital Voice Tracer with 3 Built-in Microphones Voice Recorder

Well after a weeks use on campus I figured its time for a review!The recorder itself feels sturdy. There is enough weight to tell you its well build. I personally prefer a metal body, but this plastic seems good. The moldings are solid, and the device has very little "creek" when you mess with it, and none if your just handling it normally.The menu system is simple and easy enough to navigate. Some may call it "old school", but I think updating the device to have an OLED screen and touch options would yield a much higher end user cost.As far as how well it records. Once Ive put WAV on my laptop and converted them to V0 mp3, lecture voices are loud and clear. It does a pretty good job of reducing other voices.Misc stuff. It comes with regardable rechargeable lithium batteries, I find this nice since many companies now are making you get your own. THe ubttons are all sized well enough for average hands, and respond with a good "click" feel when you press them.The downsides, to which aren't a big enough deal to deduct a star:1. Recording modes jump from 192 kbps, to WAV. I'd like a 320 kbps or better yet,V0 recording.2, No way to disable "auto-off". The highest you can set it is 1 hour. Its not a huge deal, but I'd love to fully disable it.3. the data cable it comes with is pretty short, maybe 5 inches.Overall:I'd recommend it.

It was difficult to plug the USB cable connecter into the mini port on my voice recorder and even after I finally appeared to get the cable plugged into the mini port my computer would not recognize the voice recorder. I filled out the Amazon DOA forms, received an RMA number and requested UPS pick up my voice recorder. Which they did the next day, and Amazon sent me a replacement two days later.After receiving the replacement I found the USB cable connected fine, but my computer would still not recognize the voice recorder. …so I tried connecting the voice recorder through other computer USB ports. I discovered the USB ports on the front of my computer are attached to my computer through a USB HUB and my computer will not recognize the voice recorder when it is plugged into these ports. However if I plug the voice recorder into the USB ports on the back of my computer, which are not connected through a USB HUB, my computer will recognize the voice recorder just fine.All my other devices (Amazon Kindle, Garmin Nuvi, ASUS Transformer, and multiple manufactures flash drives) work fine when connected through the front USB ports, but I seem to recall reading something ,a long time ago, about other devices not working properly when connected through a HUB. So, I guess my voice recorder is probably working correctly. I just thought I should say something about this problem. Maybe someone from Amazon or Phillips could comment on this situation. Otherwise I am happy with the voice recorder and would buy it again..

Great sound quality and sensitivity. I owned Sony ICD-UX71 and I was in love with its sensitivity and quality, but the features were few and it was not easy to navigate the menu, and it was working fine until it's stopped working one day. I was looking for something with good quality instead of Sony because from the reviews I can see that Sony new products are not as good as before. So, I was looking for alternative vendor, Olympus, TASCAM, and others. Finally I found this one and look only gives you the impression of the manufacturing quality.As for now, it is great device, many features, noise reduction is cool, wind filter is also great. I think Auto Zoom is great feature but it needs some more improvement " I don't like it when it disables noise reduction and wind filter automatically". Voice activated recording is great feature. Manual sensitivity is cool too. I think it needs more playback speeds. The radio is good and can be recorded with good quality. I suggest that the bag will be bigger a little bit.Finally, it is a great device for it's purpose (voice recording). But I think it is not designed for music recording, you may go to Yamaha which has good products for this purpose.If you need a device for lectures, dictations, and distant recording, this one will be the choice.Thanks,

Pros very easy to use once you read the manual you will use to itfunction good the buttons easily accessibleCons there is a little noise when I used it in a quite room so I think the noise will be much more in the lecture hall..If you gonna buy one of the philips recorders DVT5000 5500 or 7000you must know some things 5000 and 5500 is a minor upgrade and don't worth the money and the 7000 is actually the same 5500 even in software with just an infra red remote "Voice Tracer Digital Recorder" and 360° Recording Voice Recorder .. which doesn't worth the money.. the funny thing you will get the 7000 here in Amazon with much less than the 5000 from some sellers ..Overall it's a great recorder with good price you like it once you buy it.

i did not like it . i can not program it.iam 93 years old . there is no manual with it. i wish i had my money back. i would not recomend it for an older person.

I previously owned a Olympus WS-801 which costs significantly less.This recorder does produce better recordings with less background noise than the Olympus.However, there are two major issues with the playback:1) Playback speed only has 3 levels: slow, normal, and fast. My Olympus could do any of a tenth of a recording playback speed, so for instance I could play back at 1.3x, which was fast enough for me to take notes but not too fast. The fast playback speed of this device is too fast for notes2) Fast playback speed has no pitch control. So at fast speed everyone sounds like the chipmunks.