I bought a digital voice recorder for recording tunes at workshops. The quality was dreadful. As the previous poster says, it is is a dictaphone and the quality will be sufficient to transcribe the material from the recorder.

I ended up with a minidisk recorder which is much better - except for Sony's crap software. If I want an mp3 of my recordings I have to transfer the data in real time by the expedient of recording it into the computer. The quality of the recording by the minidisk recorder is good, though.