The digital voice recorder I had was an Olympus and the recording quality even on "best" was poor. To make things worse, the software for downloading the audio files caused my computer to crash periodically. The feedback from Microsoft suggested the driver were at fault. I contacted Olympus and - guess what - problems with our drivers? of course not, couldn't possibly be etc. etc.

I was less than impressed needless to say. Fortunately, the software worked OK on my laptop, so I was not completely sunk.

Pity, because in other ways, it was a neat bit of kit.