Marantz PMD620 Field Recorder Announced
Marantz has announced the PMD620, a compact field recorder with many capabilities intent on toppling some of its SD competitors like the ever popular Zoom H4 and the Edirol R09. Sizing in at a new minimum for Marantz, the PMD620 offers 24-bit and 16-bit recording with two built-in condenser mics, stereo and mono recording modes, and your choice of uncompressed 44.1 kHz .wav files or three different levels of mp3 recording. For those that do not want to use the condenser mics, the PMD620 also has a couple of nifty I/O options. Included with the microphone and line inputs is a microphone output
Furthermore, the PMD620 is Marantz's first attempt at utilizing SD flash memory cards for storage, citing their stability as a main reason for the new ability. One prior problems with SD flash memory has been impressively avoided. Other SD recording devices are oftentimes limited to one or two GBs of recording capability. The PMD620 can accept up to a 2 TB, 2048 GB card - especially handy for those of you, who like myself, narrate your life as it happens.
Marantz made sure to take user feedback from other PMD series models into account when creating the PMD620. This means layout enhancements offer a more easily navigable use with one button recording, an organic LED display, and functions like iPod style scroll wheels to make usage more familiar. Marantz also throws in new features like "Copy Segment" editing, using non-destructive cut and paste editing, "Skip Back" for up to 60 seconds of audio review, and USB 2.0 for the ability to transfer data to a PC.
The Zoom H4 might be sweating bullets. Two TB is a whole heck of a lot.
I got my new PMD620 today!
This recorder has a hidden issue
I had problems with an undocumented function which will not allow a recorded .wav file to be played from my PC. It seems that when you update to the latest firmware, now .wav files have to be played from within the recorder first. When you do this, the recorder will flash a message that says "Restore". Now you can export the file from SD card to your PC where it will play.
I called Tech support and they only told me that they have not heard of this issue but that I must have bought inexpensive memory and it is not stable enough to record with their player. I am using Transcend memory, not exactly a low end manufacturer... Wouldn't you agree? I have seen that the problem exists with some Kingston Memory.
I found it disturbing that the tech support says that they have not heard of this, but somehow their player is obviously programmed to make some sort of change to the .wav file to get it to play. The fact that the restore is happening means that the flashware is doing something it has been programmed to do. Call it a cover-up????
I also found the following information on this problem...
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Rec/rec.arts.movies.production.sound/2008-03/msg00862.html
It has good sound and all, easy to use, but I don't like being on the receiving end of this kind of mistake that another manufacturer is unwilling to admit to and fix...
PMD620 review
The latest firmware (as of Dec 2008) is v2.27 which I received from Marantz with a short update guide.
There is no latency, the auto level control (ALC) works great, the data formats are all correct (as far as I can tell from use in Adobe Audition, Windows media player, Winamp, and various other wav, mp3 players and editing programs.
The noise floor on this unit is very very good and the recording quality is pristine.
I have made several recordings of just me and my Taylor guitar. The recordings were so convincing that my wife thought I was playing when I was I was simply playing back the music on my home system.
The battery life claims of 4 hours are grossly conservative. I use 2200mAhr NiMH rechargeables (that are a year old btw). I get 6 hours from these batteries. I have 2600mAhr AA's on route. I suspect that one could get as much as 7 hours of recording on a good set of NiMH rechargeables .... that should put a smile on your face.
I have recorded using both the external mic and my PA system line out with everything from the previously mentioned acoustic setting, to my entire band blaring at club levels. Everything came out sounding fantastic.
Marantz support was great and responded to my request for a firmware update in a polite and quick manner. With my update Marantz stated the following:
"Please note, we strongly recommend using Lexar and SanDisk SD and SDHC
cards with the PMD620"
I have a 4Gb SanDisk SDHC headed my way from NewEgg. We will see how it goes ;)
The ability to mount the unit on a tripod (my camera tripod) is perfect. Other recorders require an additional purchase for this.
I researched alot before making this purchase. I compared the Marantz to the Edriol 09HR, The M-Audio Microtrack II, and the Sony PCM-D50.
The Edriol had lower audio quality to my ears, and persistent quality issues with the phone jack breaking.
The M-Audio's use of a proprietary battery that must be sent back to the manufacturer to be replaced (think iPod esque) removed it from the running despite its good recording quality.
The Sony simply got disqualified because of price. If money were not of any concern, it would have won. I would have missed the MP3 and mono capabilities of the Marantz anyway.
I paid ~$320 USD for the Marantz. In this price category, it is the best unit presently being made.
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