There is no way to listen to play back without headphones; and the quality on the recordings is not great -- we have to manually boost sound in Adobe Audition for the playback to be heard on regular speakers.

the sounds are incredible

If you trust your sound guy you can record off the board and get a great sound.

If you are an amateur sound recordist buy are serious about good and professional sound recording, this product

highly recommend buying it with a windscreen (i did and its much nicer sounding b/c it blocks my breathy noises, etc).