Olympus V82 Voice-Trek recorder announced

[flintstone]

Olympus sells a series of pocket recorders in Japan under the name Voice-Trek.  Most record in MP3 and WMA formats.  The newly announced V82 Voice-Trek adds WAV recording at 16/44.1 sampling rate.  The recorder has 8GB of internal flash memory, enough for 13 hours or so of 16/44.1 WAV files. 

The reason to be interested is the price: the equivalent of $165 in Japan.  If we're lucky, Olympus will use the preamp from the LS-11 recorder in this new, less expensive design.

Some details here, the name of the recorder is mis-spelled
http://en.akihabaranews.com/32787/voice-recorder/olympus-new-voice-treck-pcm-record-is-powerful-yet-cheap

[fmaderjr]

Is it really likely they'd put a really good pre in something marketed as a voice recorder?

If you want something cheap & good, why not just get a Tascam DR-07?

[flintstone]

We won't know about the pre until somebody tests it.  Sometimes companies
just use an existing design instead of investing engineering and testing time
into a design that would save 25 cents.

[sunjan]

We won't know about the pre until somebody tests it.

Yup, but it'll still only be a 16bit recorder, which puts it in the same pile as all the other Japanese low-end handhelds (Sanyo ICR, Sony SX, Kenwood etc).
24bit still gives Tascam the upper hand...