Unopened Marantz PMD570 MP3/Wav w/Free 2G Compact Flash Start Price USD 549.00 Current Price USD 549.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, November 30, 2008 End Time Sunday, December 07, 2008 Location Vienna, VA See more about 'Unopened Marantz PMD570 MP3/Wav w/Free 2G Compact Flash' Description ricksinger2000 Store Factory Sealed.  Never Opened.  Purchased for a systems integration project that was canceled because of last minute budget cuts.   Starting price $350 below what we paid Broadcast Supply Worldwide, and exactly HALF of list price. Bonus:  This offer also will include an unopened 2 gig compact flash memory card and a USB 2.0 flash memory card reader.  Detailed PDF specifications:  www.marantzpro.com/users/getdownload.asp?DownloadID=268 1U Solid-state Recorder for Installed Systems For the past several years, Marantz Professional solid state recorders have been revolutionizing the worlds of broadcasting, journalism, and portable professional recording. With no moving parts, solid state technology has virtually made repair and maintenance a thing of the past. Now, Marantz Professional brings the flexibility and reliability of this format to the installation market at an affordable price - with the PMD560. Marantz PMD560 Stereo Solid-state Recorder at a Glance: No moving parts! Records to CompactFlash cardsUp to 36-hour recording timeEasy audio transfer to computer editors99 virtual tracks for editing on the PMD560 No moving parts! Records to CompactFlash cards By storing audio data on Compact Flash (CF) media cards, all of the mechanical hassles of tape recorders are gone foreve r- as are the costs of servicing and maintaining them. Not only that, but CF storage allows you to choose different recording formats, and makes transferring audio files to computers a snap. The PMD-560 can handle up to a 4GB CompactFlash card, providing over four hours of uncompressed stereo tracks. Up to 36-hour recording time No more flipping tapes! With the PMD560 a single 1GB Flash card can hold up to 36 hours of uninterrupted audio (monaural .mp3 at 64 kbps). For music recording, the same size card can hold more than 17 hours high-quality compressed stereo (.mp3 at 128 kbps). If you need the unmatched quality of uncompressed audio, the PMD560 provides about one and-a-half hours worth of 16-bit linear PCM audio at 44.1kHz or 48kHz on the same 1GB card. Easy audio transfer to computer editors With the PMD560, you record in the format you need, and moving that recording to a computer is easy. In some cases, it's as simple as pulling the CF card from the PMD560 and plugging it into the card reader on your computer. Alternatively, you can use the USB port on the front panel to transfer audio files to a PC. It's already in your format of choice, so once it's in your computer, it's ready to post to the web, burn to a CD, or edit in your favorite editor. 99 virtual tracks for editing on the PMD560 In addition, you can make your edits and playlists right on the PMD560. Marantz Professional's exclusive "Virtual Track" mode allows you to create up to 99 virtual tracks - internal playlists of audio segments. You simply tell the PMD560 what segments of a file to play, and in what order, and it does it-without altering the original file in any way, and without using up more card memory. Need to webcast part of a meeting to your sales team? Want to play a few interview segments during your presentation? What about podcasting the six best songs from the holiday concert? Editing is easy with the PMD560's virtual tracks. Marantz PMD560 Stereo Solid-state Recorder Features: Solid-state designNo moving parts - no maintenanceAccommodates up to a 4GB CompactFlash cardRecords uncompressed 16-bit PCM .wav files at 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz.Records mono .mp3 files at 64 kbpsRecords stereo .mp3 files at 128 kbps3 presets allow instant configuration of recording formatUses inexpensive, widely available Compact Flash media (CF)A 4GB CF card can hold over four hours of uncompressed stereoA 1GB CF card can hold over 17 hours (stereo) or 36 hours(mono) .mp3RCA line I/O"Copy Segment" cut-and-paste editing to a new sound file99 "Virtual Tracks" for EDL-style editingFront-panel USB port for easy file transferRS-232 port for automation and machine control   The One and Only: I do lots of on-site/location audio recording for classical music groups. For years, I have had a pair of rack-mounted DAT recorders (for redundancy) in my road case, and all was well. However, I have been looking for new DAT machines as the old one grow long-in-the-tooth, and there are not so many models available anymore. Furthermore, DAT seems like such an old and quaint technology, I hated to commit to it for another bunch of years. Finally, the real-time download to my computer for editing was slowing up the work. I started to look at quality professional solid state recorders and hard disk recorders. All the hard disk units were either too expensive for buying two for redundancy, or they were too big for the application (too many channels, to big physically, etc). All the solid state units were portable, handheld types, not good for my rack mounted road case setup. Enter the Marantz PMD 570, the only machine of its type (Marantz has since come out with the lower priced PMD 560, but it lacks some key features like S/PDIF and balanced inputs). At only about $800 and change street, and one rack unit high, I could afford to buy two for the price of a single DAT deck, and they both fit in the space of a single DAT. They don't weigh very much either, so the road case is a bit easier to cart around now. The PMD 570 comes with a demonstration use only 64M Compact Flash card - there's no way you would really use this. I bought several 2GB cards from SanDisk for about $60 each, and get about 4 hours from each at 44.1/16bit (CD quality). After a gig, it takes less than 2 minutes to pop the card out, plug it into a card reader on my computer, and download the WAV file(s) to the hard drive for editing. How nice it is! The specs of the PMD 570 are comparable to those on my pro DAT decks, so nothing lost in terms of audio quality. The unit can also be set for any of a host of other more efficient formats, including low quality MP3 that would let you record almost forever on a card; good for certain non-musical applications like board meetings, etc. The controls are easy to use and intuitive, and the recordings sound great. Physical build quality is very high. I took a peek inside mine, and it's like looking at something made by NASA. Immaculate boards and neat wiring, high quality components, and clean assembly in evidence. mkes me feel like I am dealing with a first rate company. My onlu quibb;e is that the unit will not play back the audio at faster rates, as DAT decks and CD players can. If you press the FF or RW buttons while playing, the speed picks up very slightly, seems like maybe 10% faster or so. You need to pause the playback, then advance or go backwards with the audio muted, then hit Play again. The PMD 570 has some odd remote control connectors on the back, and I still don't really see their utility for most applications. Presumably, these address the needs of some users somewhere. The PMD 570 has unbalanced line-level stereo I/O using RCA jacks, balanced line-level stereo inputs using XLRs, and coaxial S/PDIF I/O. There is also a so-called I/O jack in the Remote Control area that appears to be USB, although I have not tried to use it and Marantz curiously does not label it as such. I think you can use it to read the memory card without needing to remove it from the unit. For years, Marantz Professional has led the industry in the recording and gathering of audio for every application from Houses of Worship to Corporate Boardrooms to Municpalities to Courthouses and beyond. Not afraid of moving forward with technology, the new PMD570 pro-installation solid state recorder from Marantz Professional will lead the charge in audio data acquisition. Replacing the traditional cassette tape with readily available and affordable CF (compact flash) cards may be scary; but after all of the benefits of doing so have been realized, you'll know why Marantz Professional and the PMD570 are out in front again.   Record Directly to Compact Flash Cards RS-232c Control of Functions Easy One Touch Record No Moving Parts MP3, MP2, WAV, and BWF Format Compatible Over 40 Assignable Quality Settings Security for Media (Door) 16-48 kHz Sample Rate Selections 32-384 Bit Rate Selectable Menu Driven Contact Closure for Remote Operation: Start-Pause, Mark EDL/Create New File/Start-Pause with New File/ Mark EDL Digital Input and Output Balanced XLR Line inputs with Trim Unbalanced Line In and Out Place a Bid!