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Hi, this is the Sangean DAR-101
phone recording device. That was the box, and it also comes with
this carrying pouch. And here is the user manual.
An in there also is the Warranty Card.
This manufacturer gives you a 1 year warranty.
Here's the instructions on how to contact them should you happen to need any service
during the 1-year warranty. Now this is powered either by 4 AA batteries
or if you prefer you can plug it into the wall, because
it also includes this AC Adapter.
The connection is done through any wall jack in your house. If you only have one wall jack
in your house, that's okay, because it also comes with this splitter. What you do is
you plug this into the wall jack, and then that gives you two spots now to
plug in both your telephone and the phone recorder. Now,
how to record phone calls is like this. You plug this into the back of
the device, and then the other end plugs into your wall jack.
Now you're all set to record all phones in the house, no matter what jack
the telephone is actually plugged into because this is connected directly to the
phone line and not any one particular phone. And you can
set it up for either manual recording or automatic recording.
If you're on manual recording what that means is that you can just select certain
phone calls or parts of phone calls to record. How you do that is
just press the record button at any time and the stop button at any time.
If you set it onto automatic recording, what it will do is,
anytime someone picks up a phone for an incoming or outgoing phone call
this device will automatically record the conversation. Then,
when they hang up the phone, it will automatically stop recording.
Once you have recorded phone calls onto the device, you can
just press the play button and listen to them right from here. There's a built in speaker
or if you want to do it in quiet you plug a headphone in there.
Or if you want to transfer the phone recording files onto your computer,
you can do that because they're all saved on this removable SD card.
It's compatible with both a PC computer and a MAC.
Because the phone calls are saved in MP3 format.
So on a PC it's going to be using Windows Media Player,
and on a MAC it's going to use iTunes.
So, this has some other features on it too, I'll just go over quickly.
This is the volume *** for when you're listening through the speaker.
This is the recording level ***.
This is the switch to switch between telephone recording, playing music,
or recording reminders for yourself.
You know which I have recorded one here to give you a sample of the sound quality. I'll just press the play button.
Hi, this is a test of the
reminder notes. Remember that you're going to meet at 10:00 to sign the contract tomorrow.
So there you can hear that it's a very
high quality sound. If you want to do some in person
recording, you can also plug in microphones here. Or, on both
corners, these are also built in microphones to do room recording.
You can just set that down in a room to record a conversation,
or a meeting, and it does a very good job of picking up
all the people that are talking in the room. Over here is the USB
jack to plug in a flash drive if you want to be able to use it to listen to
music. On the back there are some various jacks
for line in and line out. I don't know... maybe you want to connect a radio
and record something off the radio. Now, the LCD screen
does pop up in case you need a different
viewing angle if you have this setting on your desk or something like that.
The menu is very easy to read, and
you just scroll through there like this. Here you can go into system setup,
and for example here's time and date. You just go in there and
set the time. That's very nice because every phone
call it will capture the time and date of the call. Um, what else is there?
You know you go into recorder setup, and for example
here's the beep is currently turned on. If you want to have it beep
during the phone call so people know they're being recorded, you can have that on.
If you want, just turn it off. But this is
a very high quality LCD screen. It's very easy to read
you can control the contrast and the brightness if you want. And this
machine also is just a very high quality, well made
machine. You can just feel it when you operate it that the workmanship is high
quality and also the sound quality is very good. Out of all the phone
recording devices that we'ver reviewed, this is by far one of the best
phone recorders that we carry. It's a very high quality device.
So again, this is the Sangean DAR-101
phone recording device.