Re: affordable Holophone 5.1 mic announced

["clay" cfmspencer]

excellent news.

hopefully B&H hears about this soon.


FWIW, there's a H3-D 5.1 on ebay now, although the Buy It Now price is the
same as B&H's

clay



On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:12 PM, oryoki2000 <> wrote:

>   At the NAB 2008 show, Holophone introduced a second version of its six
> mic surround sound system. The new mic system is called the PortaMic
> 5.1 and has a suggested price of $600. That's a lot more affordable
> than Holophone's $2500 H4 SuperMini.
>
> Both PortaMic and SuperMini systems include a preamp incorporating the
> Dolby Pro Logic encoder that allows signals from six mics to be
> recorded as two tracks. If you've got a six track recorder, the
> PortaMic 5.1 can output a track for each mic.
>
> I didn't see this product during my brief visit Monday. I just
> noticed the press release this afternoon. Perhaps someone who is
> still at the show can take a look and give us a report.
>
> --oryoki
>
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