Topic: Olympus LS-7, announced at NAMM

[John Willett]

The LS-5 is not available in the USA (NAMM is a US electronics trade group).

Oh - that's a shame.

The LS-5 is the same quality as the LS-11 buy at a much lower price.

[John Willett]

damn, when is somebody going to put a sliding on/off pause button on the side of one of these things?  it's the only thing i miss from my old handheld cassette recorder, and i miss it a lot!

You don't normally need a pause control on a digital recorder as "stop" does the same thing.

It was needed on an analogue tape machine because it stopped the tape without removing the tape from the head - as there is no moving tape in a solid-state digital machine you don't need a pause control any more.
 

[jboyzh]

FYI, joespark just posted some pretty nice live music recording samples over at Olympus Audio Blog: http://thurly.net/10pi - he also posted a birds call one post earlier. Not sure if he used manual rec level though (listen i.e. to end of nr. 3), might have been even better then...

Using both the Sony M10 and the Oly LS-11 both for rock and classical concerts, I'm quite interested in the LS-7 for its smaller size, lower bass roll off than the LS-11, and better soundstage and usability than the M10... The LS-7 seems to be my next device to go for and try.

[AndCycle]

the first ver. of device has an issue,
when operate as an PC USB recorder, it catches nothing, zero, no sound at all, 
looks like they must have to fix this in next ver. of firmware upgrade.

[AndCycle]

• No line in
• No manual recording level

Doesn't sound like this one has any other interesting features than being small...

-c

ok, I found manual recording level on manual,
it's at
Menu setting method->Rec Level->Adjust the recording level