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TS104 Stereo Digital Recorder - Summary Chart


Professional & Semi-pro Two-track Portable Digital Recorders (Updated Nov 6, 2007)
Brand Model Street Price * Pluses Minuses Link
Zoom H2 Handy Recorder $200     www.samsontech.com
M-Audio MicroTrack II $300     www.m-audio.com
Zoom H4 Handy Recorder $300     www.samsontech.com
Edirol R-09 $400 Half the size of the R-1, 24bit/48K wav and mp3   www.edirol.com
Marantz PMD-620 $400     www.d-mpro.com
Edirol R-1 $440 Extremely small, afordable. Built-in mics easily overload. Light-weight construction. Mini jacks. Battery life 1 hour recording. No phantom power. www.edirol.com
Fostex FR-2LE $500     www.fostex.com
Marantz PMD660 $500 Very small, afordable. Noisy mic preamps. One low quality MP2 alternative to wav files. www.d-mpro.com
Sony PCD-D50 $500     www.sony.com
Korg MR-1 $700     www.korg.com
Marantz PMD670 $700 Multiple MP2 rates and wav files. Noisy mic preamps. www.d-mpro.com
Nagra Ares-M $932   16 bit, built-in memory only, slow USB 1.1 interface. www.nagraaudio.com
Zaxcom ZFR100 $995 (with STA100 stereo adapter $1300)   www.zaxcom.com
Marantz PMD671 $1000 24bit/96KHz sampling. Claims to have improved mic preamps.   www.d-mpro.com
Tascam HD-P2 $1000 24bit/192KHz, timecode, firewire   www.tascam.com
HHB DRM85 FlashMic $1000 Sennheiser omni microphone with built-in flash recorder   www.hhb.co.uk
Korg MR-1000 $1200     www.korg.com
Fostex FR-2 $1300 24bit/192KHz sampling. Professional quality. Battery life only 2.5 hours. Large size. www.fostex.com
Sony PCM-D1 $1850     www.sony.com
Sound Devices 702 $1850 24 bit/192kHz sampling. Quiet mic preamps, metal case.   www.sounddevices.com
Sound Devices 702T $2375 With timecode.   www.sounddevices.com
Sound Devices 722 $2375 With internal disk.   www.sounddevices.com
Nagra Ares-PII+ $2500     www.nagraaudio.com
Nagra Ares-BB+ $2650     www.nagraaudio.com
Sound Devices 744T $3950 With internal disk, timecode, and 4 channel recording (2 mic preamps).   www.sounddevices.com
Sonosax MiniR82 $4800

24bit/192kHz sampling.
Timecode. Extremely small, professional quality. 2 - 8 tracks (2 mic preamps)

   www.sonosax.com
Nagra V $7400     www.nagraaudio.com
Zaxcom ZFR800 tbd Handheld mic w built-in recorder.   www.zaxcom.com

* Street Price: Note that the amount of flash memory or the size of the hard disk included with each machine varies, and to make a truer price comparison you will need to determine if additional memory will be required for your application. This will vary, depending on the recording format, compression (if used), sample rate, bit rate, number of tracks, etc. Most manufacturers supply a chart to help determine this.