Solid State Portable

Nagra Ares-M

The Ares-M is a hand-held audio recorder and player with all functions and controls at your fingertips. This high quality solid-state audio recorder, is principally designed to be used in any ultra-portable recording situation, and is an ideal replacement for portable MiniDisc recorders. Its recording media is a 1 GB built-in memory, for the recording of PCM Mono or Stereo audio. MPEG compression allows for longer recording times. The unit is powered by two “AA” batteries, offering 10 hours operation.

Equipped with a built-in microphone, it is also delivered with an external clip-on stereo microphone. In addition extra high quality external Mono (omni-directional) and Stereo (Cardioid) clip on microphones are available as accessories. A traditional external microphone can also be used thanks to the XLR input cable supplied with the unit. Designed for radio applications, the ARES-M offers instant start-up, one button recording, automatic level control, internal loudspeaker, voice operated recording, Low cut filter and onboard graphic audio editor.

The ARES-M includes a miniature USB port. Through this connection, the internal memory appears on the “desktop” as a mass storage device (external drive) of the PC / MAC and requires no additional software or drivers.

Features

• Solid State recording
• Menu driven
• Built-in 1GB memory
• Long battery life
• USB port
• Lightweight Ultra portable
• Bult-in / clip-on Microphones
• Built-in loudspeaker
• Internal wave editor
• External Microphone connection
• Voice activated recording
• Line input
• Linear PCM, MP2 and MP3