Re: High resolution digital recorders

2 hours at 24/96 on removable media (4 GB) is not quite leading edge
technology but it's just starting to come down to a reasonable price
($50 or so), and not all flash memory recorders are capable of using 8
GB memory cards yet. I like the idea of a hard drive. Those two-hour
shows are always about ten minutes longer than the memory card you
have installed.

A-DATA CF 16GB for $120:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211170

i am using the 8GB version with HD-P2 and it works rock solid as of spring,
2007. i will wait until 16GB drops even further and, perhaps, replace the
existing card with it. i find 8GB, however, to be quite a reasonable amount
of space to keep recorded material.

hard drives are less reliable, have moving parts and produce noise...

If you can get over the removable media thing and don't mind mini
jacks and no phantom power, I'd recommend the Korg MR-1. It has a
built-in 20 GB hard drive, a USB port for easy transfer to a computer,
and it records in a wide range of formats from 120 kbps MP3 up to 2.8
MHz DSD. I reviewed in Pro Audio Review August 2007:
http://www.proaudioreview.com/pages/s.0035/t.8221.html

there's a speculation that 2.8 Mhz DSD isn't enough in order to compensate
signal to noise ratio with 1-bit technology, and that the PCM 24/96 has a
better S/N ratio at 40khz than DSD - see this post by SOS editor Hugh
Robjohns:

http://tinyurl.com/ythxjf

-andrejs


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