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Marantz PMD671 solid-state pro recorder


We know that some of you still carry around DAT or even MD recorders because you're dissatisfied with the current crop of portable digital audio recorders. Hopefully, the Marantz PMD671 will help you get over your fixation with old gear. The recorder is a 24bit/96kHz 2 channel deck, and includes a USB port, mic inputs, and digital and analog output. It can record both compressed MP3 files and uncompressed WAVs onto CF cards, and runs about $1,200. That doesn't seem like too high a price to pay to modernize your rig -- though we'd really like to see something like this with a hard drive, rather than having to depend on CF cards or microdrives.