(New) WAV/MP3 Recorder PMD620 from Marantz
Marantz introduced in dec 2007 their latest incarnation of field WAV recorders. They used to make very expensive big field recorders, but now they saw the light and created a recorder that actually fits in your bhakta bag….
It runs on 2 AA batteries (yeah!) and uses SD/SDHC memory cards. Marantz boasts that it should run for 5 hrs. Some reviewers have found that is lasts upto 6 hrs. It can record in standard WAV format, and also in MP3, but the highest quality is limited to 192 Kbps.
Here are some related links
- Excellent review at oreilly.com
- Another review on this machine at wingfieldaudio.com
- Good review at transom.org
- Product page at Marantz
Last month ( apr 2008 ) Marantz released a new firmware (internal software) to address some nasty programming mistakes.
After reading the reviews i must conclude that the latest Edirol R-09HR still beats this recorder. The slow USB (1.1) is one of the reasons. But the PMD620 comes very close…..
May 21st, 2008 at 12:41h
[...] competitors for the Edirol R-09 are the Zoom H4 and H2 , the M-Audio Microtrack I/II and the Marantz PMD620. The price of the R-09/HR is quite high compared to the Zoom for example, but makes up in ease of [...]