Mike--
Sorry to hear about the R-1 issues. Do you think the noise level on
the mic inputs on the 660 will be okay for quiet locations? Have you
been able to find 660 specs? I see the 670 is listed as "65dB Signal
to Noise Ratio." Rob D.
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At 9:11 AM -0600 3/1/05, Mike Feldman wrote:
>Lang Elliott wrote:
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> > When is the Marantz PMD 660 supposed to appear on the scene?
>
>I saw one dealer site taking pre-orders and claiming to be
>getting the 1st batch. My preferred dealer says sometime in
>March. Looks like $500 street.
>
>I've got an Edirol R-1 that's dissapointed me on several fronts,
>the most recent being the clunky user interface doesn't let
>you see the value of settings at the list level -- you have to
>go down into edit mode. I tried to set it to stereo, but the
>exit sequence is ambiguous and I wound up putting it back in
>mono for a demo session. I didn't discover that until I was
>processing the tracks later and noticed L & R tracks were
>identical. I haven't determined for sure if it mixed the
>L & R inputs, or just duplicated L onto R, but the .WAV file
>was two tracks.
>
>I'm planning to get the Marantz 660 and keep the R-1 long
>enough to do a head-to-head comparison, but I really don't
>won't to lug around an AC powered outboard preamp for my
>P48 mics, so I think the Marantz wins already.
>
>The demo tracks are on my web site -- email me for URL.
>They're 24 bit wav Left channel converted to 16 bit aiff
>then 160 kbps mp3. Input chain was Earthworks SRO ->
>M-Audio Duo -> Edirol R-1 @ 24-bit WAV MONO. Bluegrass.
>
>-- Mike
>
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>
>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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Rob Danielson
Film Department
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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