From a company famous for the production of photo equipment and cameras filmed, comes a new product technology registration portable.LS10 is a reportofon with stereo printing launched since January at NAMM. The new Olympus model can compete without any problems with Sony PCM-D1 or M-Audio Microtrack II, Edirol R09 or Zoom H2/H4. LS10 is a light metal casing but resistance. His dimensions are quite small, can be easily confused with a telephone mobile.The buttons are well and have some special safety systems so that we do not start playing sound accidentally. An interesting feature may be the attachment to a trip, useful in case conferences long reportofon what needs fixing.

The microphones are placed in a configuration X / Y, but with internal software of “virtual microphones, stereo field can be changed depending on several parameters. The device has an output Line In / Headphone. As accessories you can buy a mini-remote and a 5V power. To transfer the data you provide a port USB.The bad part is that you can not load the reportofonl via USB, power supply to make it with two AA batteries R6. The manual is not very strict in case the autonomy (from 8 to 35 hours) depending on what do with it (print consume more than playing files).
Virtualization technology to microphones is called DiMagic in principle so that any sound to be captured. Everything is done with the 16-bit 44.1kHz WAV format. A very good proof you can do in traffic. You feel as cars passing from one to the other side of speakers.
LS10 is equipped with an internal memory of 2 GB and an SD card slot for up to 6GB. The format will create 5 folders, both in internal memory as well as card. One of them will be called Music and is intended to MP3 or WAV files that you wish to redati. You can tranfer by explorer or Windows Media Player.
In connection with the PC reportofon will be identified as a “removable storage device.”
The Music folder allows you to treat the LS10 like a conventional MP3 player, should you wish to. You can drag and drop albums of MP3 or WMA files from your computer into this folder, or synchronise it with Windows Media Player.
In conclusion, although Olympus LS10 has a price acceptable, not the cheapest on the market reportofons, the cheapest being Zoom H2.Dar sound quality and simplicity of operations which need to make the operation of LS10 a reportofon effective.