"A. & G. Reiswig" wrote:


With all the iPods and other HD recorders out there, you'd think that one of
them would have tumbled to the idea that you could also do decent recordings
from a mic using one of their units.

But...if you were looking for a basic mono or stereo recorder that had
pretty decent sound, and was hopefully smaller than the typical DAT or
cassette recorder, what would you look at?


Well, I just returned from 11 days in China recording
Beethoven, Vaughan-Williams, Wagner, Bizet, Mozart, and
other oldies with a Marantz PMD670 with a 1 Gb CF chip.

Sounds absolutely fine. Too bad the concert halls and the
sound systems/"engineers" weren't up to the task. Other than
the cell phones ringing in the audience(s), people taking
calls and talking during the performances, and sound system
howls, squeals, general overamplification to a near
unbearable level, and the nearly unbreathable air,
everything was great.

Check out the PMD670. For about $800 (($700 for the machine
plus $100 for the chip (actually $89 at Fry's with a $20
rebate))), you get a nice, usable solution if your problem
is one that it will solve.



T. Maki
Riverside, CA