The new Olympus LS-11 recorder will appear in about a month, by mid-Septemb=
er. A few web sites are advertising the LS-11 now, price $360. That's dow=
n from Olympus's suggested price of $400. I expect that discounts to $300 =
will be available after the recorder is released.
The LS-11 is an updated version of the LS-10. Changes include 8GB of built=
-in flash memory (up from 2GB in the LS-10), a reported 23 hours of record =
time from two AA cells (up from 12 hours), the ability to add track marks d=
uring recording (not available in LS-10), compatible with 32 GB SDHC cards =
(LS-10 only 8 GB?), and a few other minor differences.
These are useful changes. However, it's not known if the LS-11 offers any =
improvements in recording quality. The quality may be identical to the LS-=
Message: 10.
Subject: We should be able to answer this question in a few weeks.
Olympus says the LS-10 will continue to be sold. Compuplus.com is offering=
the LS-10 for $200 this morning.
--oryoki
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