Re: High resolution digital recorders


A-DATA CF 16GB for $120:

Will your recorder take a 16GB card? Most of these are just catching
up with 8 GB cards.

this i don't know yet. i will write to Tascam and ask them before i get it,
of course. theoretically, it shouldn't make a difference..

I find that to be quite expensive since I've been
buying 120 to 160 GB hard drives for about $30, brand new. A $120
memory card is only considered "removable media" by those with big
budgets. It's really fixed media and the recorder costs $120 more than
you think it does. It may be physically removable, but most people
don't have a stack of memory cards on the shelf. If you can load it on
to your computer faster with a card reader than through the USB or
Firewire port, you take it out, but you put it right back in.

i consider CF being a fixed media too, as i rarely pull it out of the
recorder, since the firewire connection is available, and also because i'm
afraid this process would eventually result in wear and tear of the card
socket.

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.

It depends on what you're doing. I often record at weekend long (or
sometimes week long) festivals where I'm also mixing the live sound. I
appreciate the convenience of not having to change media during the
work day, and not having to dump it off on a computer at the end of
the day when all I want is dinner, a glass of wine and to soak in the
hot tub.

but having a dinner and transferring files from the CF card to your computer
are not mutually exclusive. i mean, you can leave the copying process in
the background while having a dinner and/or a glass of wine. i find,
however, that with my laptop PC the firewire connection of the HD-P2 is a
bit on the slow side - i get only about 3 MB/s read speed, which isn't all
that really fast... i believe this has something to do with the 4-pin 1394
port on my laptop, as only 6-pin interface will provide enough power for
better transfer speed. i have encountered this same situation with some
external 2.5" HDD USB drives, as higher voltage is required for better
transfer speed. unless a USB power-cable is supplied and supported by such
a drive, the transfer speed remains rather slow. once i also connect a USB
power-cable, in addition to USB data cable, the transfer speed increases
dramatically. the new 2.5" Lacie drives seem to have power sharing cable
included in the package.

If you're recording 2-hour shows a couple of times a month,
or production audio that you're going to use as soon as you get home
with the recording, a 2-hour capacity is probably OK.

8 GB is not 2 hours but rather 4.1 hours @ at 24/96, and 8.2 hours at 24/48.
i was thinking a CF card with 16 GB capacity would double the max recording
time.

Many of my recordings go into an archive and may never be played, or
might be played for the first time 10 or 15 years after they're made.
CDs (16-bit 44.1 kHz) will probably still be playable in the future.
Will anyone know what DSF, DSDFF, and WSD files are years from now? At
some point you have to cut the audiophile crap and be practical if
you're going to be a working professional.

agreed.

I can't believe that I've been working with a Nomad Jukebox 3 as my
field recorder for about five years now, but I still haven't found
anything that I can justify as a replacement (yes, money is an object).

:-)

but "life outruns dream"!

-andrejs


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