Marantz PMD670 Solid-State Recorder

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This is a versatile and effective digital recorder that is well suited for people looking to record meetings or complex music. It can accept line level, XLR and digital input with support for phantom power. The microphone preamps are fine, but you can...

This is for bird recording in the field, that was why I bought the Marantz PMD670. The speaker is definitely very bad for conducting play-back to attract birds during fieldwork. Specially for small passerines such as Tyrannulets or Tody-Tyrants, or...