#P2 card reader firewire portable#

The subject of this review is a new offering from Tascam (in conjunction with Frontier Design) which is designed to compete directly with the Fostex machine and to meet the needs of much the same market - the high-end enthusiast and the budget-conscious professional. The Fostex FR2 is amongst the better known of the high-end professional machines to provide high-quality two-track audio recording to a Compact Flash card, although there were a few more specialised recorders aimed at the broadcast journalist market before it, and several more cost-effective models have emerged since. Compact Flash media now seems to be the most widely adopted format, as it offers very workable capacities at reasonable prices, together with ease of use and exceptional ruggedness and reliability. These formats are all but obsolete these days, and hard disk drives and solid-state memory cards are quickly becoming the 'standard' formats for all manner of data acquisition, whether in digital cameras, PDAs or specialist audio recorders.

#P2 card reader firewire portable#

Over the years, manufacturers have used a variety of different media to make portable recording possible, from magnetic tape reels and cassettes to DAT tapes and Minidiscs. Tascam's upwardly-mobile new recorder is going places. Quality mic preamps, 24-bit/192kHz operation, timecode sync.