A full-featured portable DAT recorder built to handle the most rigorous field applications, the DA-P1 is also an excellent addition to any studio. It has a dual direct drive motor transport for unprecedented reliability, and it offers XLR-balanced mic/line inputs with switchable 48v phantom power for use with condenser mics. When recording from an analog source, sampling rates of 44.1 or 48 kHz can be selected. Coaxial S/PDIF (Sony Philips Digital Interface) digital I/O allows you to output directly to compatible digital equipment such as sound cards, hard disk recorders and non-linear video systems, while the digital input will automatically adjust to sample rates of 32, 44.1 and 48 kHz.