The intriguing Pocketrak 2G is available now from retailers in USA.
Typical price is $350. Here's a link to Yamaha's web page about the
product:
http://www.yamahasynth.com/products/pocketrak/index.html
Stephanie Wingfield has posted a few sound samples on her website:
http://www.wingfieldaudio.com/portable-recorder-sound-samples.html
The links to Pocketrak 2G recordings are halfway down the page.
No, the Pocketrak is not a replacement for your Sound Devices 702.
It's a pocket size "point and shoot" recorder that is small enough
that you'll carry it with you without a second thought. It's for
recording field notes, and capturing delightful samples of audio that
appear unexpectedly.
The Pocketrak is the smallest and lightest WAV recorder I've seen to
date, only 49 grams (1.75 oz) including battery. Stick out your index
and middle fingers -- the Pocketrak is about the same size!
The Pocketrak was developed by Sanyo. Yamaha must have purchased
marketing rights for North America. In Japan, the recorder is called
the Sanyo Diply Talk ICR-PS285RM.
One weakness of the Pocketrak is that there is no provision for a
removable flash memory card. The "2G" refers to the Pocketrak's 2 GB
of built in flash memory. So you're limited to recording about 3
hours of stereo 16/44.1 files.
In Japan, an 8 GB model is available. It's called the Sanyo Diply
Talk ICR-PS390RM, price about $400. Maybe Yamaha will import this
model as well.
The Pocketrak 2G is supposed to be able to record WAV files for 9
hours, powered by a single AAA cell -- amazing! The Pocketrak is
shipped with a rechargeable AAA unit, made by Sanyo, naturally.
It occurs to me that the appearance of the Sanyo Diply Talk WAV
recorder in Winter 2007 may have prompted Olympus to develop the
LS-10. Olympus, Sony and Sanyo compete in the market for executive
pocket dictation equipment.
--oryoki
"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause
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