At 4:59 PM +0000 11/19/05, oryoki2000 wrote:
>Remember the market Marantz hoped to address with the PMD660. The
>machine is designed to record the human voice with closely placed
>mics, for professional customers like court stenographers, speech
>therapists, teachers, and ENG. That's why Marantz paid as much
>attention to rugged construction as they did to preamp quality.=A0
>
>The $400 Edirol R-1, on the other hand, was designed with student
>musicians and garage bands in mind. So having decent quality preamp
>and A/D circuitry is more important than sturdy construction and XLR
>connectors.
>
>--oryoki
>
Musicians, stenographers, teachers, reporters--
all applications would benefit from a quality mic
pre amp and they're not expensive to include.
They can be quiet, have plenty of gain, ample
headroom and very acceptable A-D at the cost of a
few bucks. If manufacturers don't put enough
thought or talent into their recorders, it serves
all parties for recordists to speak up when basic
standards are overlooked. Rob D.
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"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
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