Japanese electronics giant Sony expands range of digital audio recorders with a new PCM-D10 model. It will be the cheapest of all digital audio recorders of Sony, capable of recording 96kGts/24-bit stereo.
The device can record using the built-in or external microphone, or through the audio line. Built-in memory is 4 GB; it can be expanded to include maps of the MicroSD / Memory Stick Micro format. This is the first device from Sony, which is not equipped with a slot for memory card of the Memory Stick format, developed by the Japanese company.
PCM-D10 is the first representative of the line PCM-D with built-in speakers for playback of recorded material. In addition, it has almost all the software that is present in the recorder of the model PCM-D50 (the latter price is $200). In addition, PCM-D10 is the first flash-recorder from Sony, writing audio of MP3 format (PCM-D50 and PCM-D1 write only WAV).
Professional digital audio recorder PCM-D10 will go on sale in October this year, and its price will be 399 dollars.
Zoom h4 or H2 much better, much cheaper and field proven. Sony jumps on the copy everybody else bandwagon. Sony used to be an innovator of quality products, but now they just copy and don’t seem to do a very good job of that.