Equipment Question

[The Sledgehammer]

The 670, I own one, it rocks! The sweet thing about the 670 is you can do
breaks on the fly. What that means is, if you're recording along, and you
want to end what you just recorded and start a new file, you simply hit the
Record lever again and the file is closed and a new one opened, seamlessly.

The 670 produces WAV files, and you will need a Compact Flash reader to use
it with a Mac (i.e. the Lexar FireWire based one for $60.) See me
in-progress review of it here:

http://sldghamr.faithweb.com/PMD670.html

The price of CF media will kill you, but the recorder is $700 typically on
the street. In stereo uncompressed WAV mode you will get around 95 minutes
on a 1GB CF card. So to get 3 hours you weill need 2 - 1GB CF cards, that
will run you around $850. If you can make due with slightly compressed audio
the 670 offers 384kbps MP2 (MPEG 1 layer 2) recording, which is pretty
darned good for hobbyist and semi-pro use. That will get you almost 3 hours
on a 512MB CF. It also offers MP3 at bitrates up to 320k, but at high
bitrates MP2 is superior.

P.S. I do not work for Marantz.

Rick

> From: "Mac Pro Audio List" <MacProAudio at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 05:40:55 -0800
> To: "Mac Pro Audio List" <MacProAudio at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: MacProAudio Digest #640
> 
> Am considering a CD recorder, solid state (Marantz PMD670 )