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Re: [gear] Marantz PMD620 first impressions (long msg)

Subject: Re: [gear] Marantz PMD620 first impressions (long msg)
From: "Rob Danielson" danielson_rob
Date: Tue Dec 11, 2007 1:20 am ((PST))
At 4:48 PM +0000 12/10/07, jmcharcot wrote:
>Thanks for this review..
>
>Regarding the preamps, did you or someone else proceed to some other
>tests, do you think they are better than the ones of a HiMD like the RH1 or
>the RH10? I'd consider using it with an AT-822..
>
>Kind regards,
>
>JM.

Hi JM--
In terms of noise performance, the AT-822's "self-noise" [~24dB(A)] 
is likely to be appreciably louder and "mask" much or all of the mic 
preamps' noise associated with all of these recorders unless the 
PMD620 is much noisier than its predecessors (unlikely). The same 
would probably be true for many, older MD recorders. Based on some 
tests with Hi-MD mic pres, one could begin to hear some preamp noise 
performance differences when the mics' self noise is lowered into the 
realm of 12dB(A). Rob D.
-- 





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sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause


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