Walter Knapp wrote:
>...The flash memory is depending on
>continuous electric supply from a battery...
Wrong -- All flash memory manufacturers (SanDisk, Kingston, Delkin,
others) state that their products will retain data without a power
source for 10 years or more. Toss the CompactFlash card in a drawer
and come back months or years later -- your data will still be
there. Maybe by "battery" you're referring to the electric charge
retained at the transistor level in each flash memory cell.
>...I'm so occupied recording I don't have time
>to do transfers, or if I took the time, I'd have
>less time to record...
This is partly true because data transfers from minidisc to computer
are very slow. A transfer of 45 minutes of mono recording from any
minidisc recorder takes 45 minutes. Transferring 45 minutes of mono
WAV recording from CompactFlash (about 256MB of data) takes less than
2 minutes. No big deal.
>...All recording types have good and bad points,
>and solid state is no exception.
Agreed.
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>From Tue Mar 8 18:22:33 2005
Message: 3
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 01:55:32 -0000
From: "adam5532" <>
Subject: Re: Marantz recorders
Matt,
I have been talking to the correct company as I am an authorized
Marantz Professional servicer and having ordered Marantz parts for
the last 20 years.
I spoke to Bob Heintz at Marantz Professional within the last year
and was told that "Revision 2 July 1994" was the latest manual for
the PMD221/201, "Revision Jan 1992" was the latest manual for the
PMD430, no revision was available for the PMD222, and the only
service bulletin available for any of the portable cassettes was for
the motor update. If you have an update or service bulletin in front
of you for the PMD222 then it appears that I was given incorrect
information. I would be most grateful to receive this and any other
updates that I don't have direct from you or from Marantz
Professional.
>From my experience it doesn't seem to be an issue isolated to a few
early production machines as I have received many units all with the
same noise problem.
I certainly don't want to be unfair to your product in any way. I
would be glad to evaluate the service update to determine if it
solves the problem. In addition, if you can arrange to loan me a
current production PMD222 I would be glad to run tests on the mic
inputs with the Audio Precision and report the results here (if you
desire). Also, if you can tell me the starting serial number for the
fix I can determine if the units I have tested or modified were made
before or after your service update. We can do this all by private
email.
I notice that there are two recent postings from me on the PMD222
appearing on the list and I don't want to you get any misimpression.
These are not new and were sent around a month ago and have just
mysterously appeared. I sent repeated posts because they seemed to be
vanishing into cyberspace and not appearing on the forum.
Thanks,
Adam Liberman
Liberman Sound
--- In wrote:
> I don't know if you have been speaking to Marantz America, but they
are
> not connected with Marantz Professional ( who make these products )
in the
> US. The US contact for Marantz Professional are Superscope
Technologies
> based in Chicago. And I can assure you that there was a service fix
for
> this problem which was then implemeted in production, as I have the
> documents in front of me now. In future if anyone requires any
information
> in the US about Marantz Professional products, you should contact
Paul
> Mathis at Superscope Technologies, contact details on their website
> www.superscope-marantzpro.com.
>
>
> Best Wishes
>
> Matt
>
> Matt Jarvis
> Product Marketing Manager
> Marantz Professional Europe
> Kingsbridge House, Padbury Oaks, 575-583 Bath Road, Longford,
Middx, UB7
> 0EH, United Kingdom
> +447796610410 - Mobile
> +441753686080 - UK Office
> +441753686020 - Fax
>
>
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>
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>
> "adam5532" <>
> 2002-07-06 01:17
> Please respond to naturerecordists
>
>
> To:
> cc: (bcc: Matt Jarvis/LGD/CE/PHILIPS)
> Subject: [Nature Recordists] Re: Marantz recorders
> Classification:
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>
>
> > I know that early runs of the 222, which had both xlr and mini
mike
> inputs,
> > had substantially greater noise on the XLR than on the mini! I
was
> told that
> > a circuit modification was later made which cured this ill.
We're
> talking
> > more than a decade ago...
>
> There was never an update from Marantz as far as I know for this
> problem (I asked Marantz in the US fairly recently), and all the
> PMD222's that we see suffer from it.
>
> We service a vast number of Marantz's and offer a modification for
> $75 to reduce the XLR input noise by about 10dB (to the same level
as
> the mini jack).
>
> - Adam Liberman
> Liberman Sound
> www.libermansound.com
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