The Marantz PMD660 is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, but
it has features that make more expensive, full-sized field recorders
green with 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, and 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.
Key Features
- Smallest PMD yet-fits in your hand
- Records uncompressed 16-bit PCM .wav files at 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz.
- Records mono .mp3 files at 64 kbps
- Records stereo .mp3 files at 128 kbps
- Uses inexpensive, widely available Compact Flash media (CF)
- 1 GB CF card can hold over 1 hour of uncompressed stereo
- 1 GB CF card can hold over 17 hours (stereo) or 36 hours (mono)
.mp3
- Operates for four hours on four AA batteries
- Two XLR mic connections with +48v phantom power
- Two built-in condenser mics for easy, true stereo recordings
- Stereo line I/O
- Solid State Design
- No moving parts-no maintenance
- "Copy Segment" cut-and-paste editing to a new sound file
- 99 "Virtual Tracks" for EDL-style editing
- Built-in USB port for easy file transfer
- Optional wired remote control with peak indicator