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Re: Sorry....but purchase dilemma

Subject: Re: Sorry....but purchase dilemma
From: "Neil Bruce" lightb4sound
Date: Thu Jun 7, 2007 11:41 am ((PDT))
Thank you for that very useful information Oryoki.

Certainly (more!!!) food for thought! I guess my worry is that a Tascam
HD-P3 or P4 will come out soon (give the age of the P2) and it's value
will drop and the new recorder will have even better features, whereas
something such as the SD Mixpre will keep it's value and be useful no
matter what back end it is used with. I guess I think it will be more of
an investment and something which I could use on a film shoot (direct to
camera) or with a MD or a new generation of CF recorder.

I hate buying dilemmas! :)


All the best

Neil

oryoki2000 wrote:
>
> The Tascam HD-P2 is a great all-around choice. With quantization
> rates as high as 24/192, great preamps, timecode input, SPDIF in/out,
> and 10 second pre-roll, the HD-P2 is in a class by itself when
> compared with anything for less than $1000.
>
> Speaking of preamps, Raimund Specht's tests of preamp self-noise show
> that the HD-P2 noise level is within 1% of the Sound Devices 722. I'd
> call that a tie.
>
> The HD-P2 also performed well in Rob D.'s recent comparison of
> recorders that cost less than $1000.
>
> The HD-P2 is commonly sold for $999. I recently saw it for $900 at
> The Sound Professionals.
>
> --oryoki
>
>




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