Topic: Size Matters: Popular portable recorders by volume

[flintstone]

Apropos of nothing, I suppose, but here's a quick list of recorders, sorted by their volume in cubic centimeters.  I used the height x width x length specs provided by the manufacturers' web pages. 

Basically, small recorders are half the volume of the medium models, which in turn are half the volume of the large units.  Whether the medium units can be considered "hand held" really depends on the size of your hand.

For those interested, weight of the recorders is roughly proportionate to volume.


Small:
Olympus LS-10/11...139 cc
Sony PCM-M10...156 cc

Medium:
Sony PCM-D50...368 cc
Olympus LS-100   ...372 cc
Tascam DR-100 Mk II...428 cc
Marantz PMD661...552 cc
Roland R-26...605 cc

Large:
Sound Devices 722...1176 cc
Fostex FR-2LE...1550 cc
Edirol R-44...1753 cc
Tascam DR-680...2274 cc

[terabyte23]

Cool.  Here's another:
Tascam DR-2d...184 cc

[notlance]

Sound Devices 788T...1885 cc
Nagra VI...6538 cc

[danlynch]

The new Roland R-05 is probably the smallest of them all.

[hoppedup]

The new Roland R-05 is probably the smallest of them all.

I come up with 158cc for the Roland R-05

161cc for the M10

76cc for the Tascam DR-08

[danlynch]

If the Tascam DR-08 is half the size of the R-05, its then about the size of cigarette lighter.

[ilduclo]

i get 75.7 for the dr08, 158.1 for the r5

o8 is actually longer, but much narrower and shallower.

[hoppedup]

i get 75.7 for the dr08

Well, using the standard measurements I got 75.8435109 cc and and rounded up. When I went with metric I got 76.3125. I didn't know how many significant digits we were going with, so I called it 76.

[ilduclo]

you're right!

[flintstone]

Sanyo has produced some of the smallest PCM recorders.  Here's one introduced in 2009. 
Small size means a single AAA cell for power, and microSD card for storage.

ICR-PS503RM 13.9mm depth 103mm × 35.4mm = 50.7 cc

There must be a replacement model by now. 

[Humbug]

iRiver H140: 141cc
iRiver H120: 131cc
Nomad JB3: No flippin' idea, how do you measure the volume of that thing? 

[mattmiller]

Nomad JB3: No flippin' idea, how do you measure the volume of that thing? 

You put it in the sink and see how much water it displaces.

Or calculus.

[stevetoney]

Nomad JB3: No flippin' idea, how do you measure the volume of that thing? 

You put it in the sink and see how much water it displaces.

Or calculus.

Make sure you put it in a baggie first.   

[Humbug]

The Nomad JB3 still makes good tapes. I used it every night for the last three nights as one of my rigs.

Would you guys stop trying to kill it off? 

[stevetoney]

The Nomad JB3 still makes good tapes. I used it every night for the last three nights as one of my rigs.

Would you guys stop trying to kill it off? 

I'm not sure if you're responding to the last two comments made on the JB3, but just to clarify my response to Matt...he said that to measure the JB3s physical volume you'd put it in water and see how much water is displaced.  My comment was to remind anyone to put it in a plastic bag before you do that.  I'm trying to keep your JB3 alive, not kill it off.