Date:         Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:30:05 -1000
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I've read negative comments about the quality of the preamps in this 
recorder, giving the impression that while it might be perfectly adequate 
for non-critical recordings (interviews and the like) it isn't suitable for 
serious music recording.

Salutations, David L

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From: "Prentice, Will" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: October 12, 2005 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Seen at AES NYC


The British Library Sound Archive has had a handful of these for a
little over a year, and has been fairly happy with them. We had a small
number of failures using ATA Flash cards, but since swapping to Compact
Flash I don't think there have been any problems. Note though that
however big the storage medium is, the machine won't generate a file
greater than 4Gb.

Will

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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of andy kolovos
Sent: 11 October 2005 17:07
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Seen at AES NYC

Konrad Strauss wrote:
 > Did you look at the Fostex flash recorder? At a list of $1200 it
looked like
 > a great option. With a 5 gig flash card you get 2 hours of 96k 24-bit
 > recording. It also takes the 1.8" PCMCIL hard discs.
 >
 > http://www.fostex.com/index.php?file=products/pfr/fr2
 >

I've been enthralled by this thing for a couple of years now, but
neither we (the Vermont Folklife Center) nor I have ventured to buy one
yet.

A visitor to the field recording equipment website that I maintain
recently emailed a comment about the unit--that it has been "plagued by
file corruption problems." This note was the first I've heard about any
problems with the unit, and since it came out of the blue I don't know
what to think.

Has anyone else come across this issue?  The one review I've seen of the

FR2 was stellar.

andy



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