I was looking for a way to capture my notes quickly and then write them up later, so I started looking round for a dictaphone. I've never owned a dictaphone before so it was a bit of a gruelling search through a seemingly endless array of internet sites and pages. There were so many types of dictaphone to chose from: digital ones with a built in memory of 1 gigabyte or so, digital ones with USB sockets to save my recording to computer, cassette ones that take full size normal cassetees, and ones that take micro cassettes. Fortunately I saw an ad in my local paper for a micro cassette dictaphone for only £8 so I went for that. It was a ...  Read the complete review

As a self-employed worker, offering secretarial services from my home I had to purchase a multitude of equipment in order to be able to present the extent of services I do. One of the services I offer is audio typing, and for this reason I needed a reliable dictaphone, in order to play clients recordings and type them up. Browsing through the Argos catalogue I saw the Sanyo TRC-525M and as it was a reasonable price I decided to go for it, as I also knew the client I was audio typing for would be using the cassettes that fitted into this machine. Once out of the small but sturdy cardboard box packaging, I was presented with the dictaphone, which ...  Read the complete review