MARANTZ HANDHELD CF MP3 WAV RECORDER

MARANTZ HANDHELD CF MP3 WAV RECORDER Handheld PMD Digital Media Recorder Uses Compact Flash Cards

Our newest PMD recorder is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, but it has features that make more expensive, full-sized field recorders green w/envy. It can run for hours on just four AA batteries. It records on Compact Flash media cards which you can find in any discount store, & will store more than 36 hours of mono on a single card. If audio quality is your key requirement, you get over an hour of pristine, uncompressed, 16-bit .wav files. Editing can be achieved right there in the field using either of two editing modes, or you can use your favorite audio editing application by transferring files to your PC-the PMD660 even has its own USB port. XLR inputs, phantom power, built-in mics & more-it's all there in the PMD660.

* WINNER of the 2005 Radio World ""Cool Stuff Award""
* WINNER of the 2005 Radio Magazine ""Pick Hit Award""
* Smallest PMD yet-fits in your hand
* Uses inexpensive, widely available Compact Flash media (CF)
* Operates for four hours on four AA batteries
* Two XLR mic connections w/+48v phantom power
* Two built-in condenser mics for easy, true stereo recordings

Solid State Technology
The PMD660 is the newest generation of ""Flash Recorders"". By storing audio data on Compact Flash (CF) media cards, all of the mechanical hassles of tape recorders are gone forever-as are the costs of servicing & maintaining them. Solid State Technology makes the PMD660 less vulnerable to bumps, vibrations, & sonic deterioration over the long haul. Not only that, but CF storage allows you to choose from several recording formats, & makes transfer to computers a snap.

Marantz PMD660, by Netoiant on 3/31/2007 11:36:30 PM

There's been understandable excitement about the Marantz PMD660, a solid-state recorder that seems designed with the reporter in mind. It's small, it's not too expensive, yet with enough professional attributes to give it some tangible advantages over the smaller, cheaper consumer recorders many of us have been using. Solid-state "Flash Media" recorders in general offer a few advantages over conventional recorders, especially the lack of moving parts, elimination of expendable media, and easy transfer of audio to a computer for editing and archiving. But they also require some shifts of paradigm: we no longer record onto a master tape or disc, which will then be saved in an archive. Instead, audio is recorded to a memory card, then transferred to a computer, after which the card is erased and used again. One needs to have enough storage: large capacity compact flash cards, and perhaps multiple cards. Prices for these cards are changing all the time, in the spring of 2005, they have dropped below $100 per gig. Each gigabyte will give about 90 minutes of stereo recording, or three hours of mono, when recording 16-bit, 44.1 kHz sample rate, .wav files. The Marantz PMD 660 with a Tascam DAP-1 DAT recorder and Shure SM-58 for scale. The Marantz PMD 660 is a smaller, more streamlined version of their PMD 670, the latest in a long line of recorders designed for journalists in the field. The 660 is missing a few options that its big brother has, but it seems that the relative convenience of the smaller, less-expensive version is a decent compromise. Looking down at the PMD 600 hanging from its shoulder strap. The 660 is very light, and fairly compact. It's not quite small enough to casually toss into a pocket like a little consumer minidisc recorder, or a reporter's digital voice recorder, but it's pretty reasonable for something that has XLR inputs and a speaker. It feels a little fragile, because it's plastic, so I don't have lots of faith that it

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