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Re: [ARSCLIST] Marantz PMD 670
Title: Re: [ARSCLIST] Marantz PMD 670
The University of Chicago Language Labs purchased one of these
last year and it has been used by one of the Linguistic professors. He
liked it well enough to purchase one for himself. The Labs have just
ordered two more. I have shown it to several researchers and they have
all expressed their interest.
Barbara Need
Manager (SS4)
Richard,
Thanks for the evaluation
and advice. I am not aware of any real comparable unit (at least one
that is in the 3-figure range), though I would be interested to hear
if one exists
The price of $699 seems
to be more or less universal online and is quite reasonable given the
potential uses this unit could be put to. I agree that direct-to-PC
would be the optimal route, but my workflow (determined basically by
the varied locations and types of source material) makes bringing
everything to the recorder much more problematic than bringing the
recorder to them.
Thanks
again,
Peter
Hirsch
>Date: Sun, 13 Jun
2004 00:07:05 -0700
>From: "Richard L. Hess"
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>Subject: Re: Marantz PMD 670
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>It looks like a great thing for $700 or so. B&H Photo has it
for that price
>if you click "give me a better price."
>
>The only thing I would suggest is that for in-house digitization
of LPs and
>78s you consider going directly to a good PC with a good sound
card. I just
>bought a pair of Refurb'd Dells for $1250 each. Add to that a
sound card
>(which I won't--'cause they're not for sound work, though they are
faster
>than my current computer) -- Although I've never had one, a good
choice, I
>think, for a sound card is the Digital Audio Labs CardDeluxe for
$400
>http://www.digitalaudio.com/DIGITALAUDIO/myarticles.asp?>P=5210&S=75&PubID=4401
>
>See the review at http://www.pcavtech.com/
>
>Of course, this doesn't work for field recordings, but it works
for the
>other stuff.
>
>Figure out the workflow and see what makes sense for you. I'm in
the midst
>of doing a migration from audio CD-R workflow to PC workflow for
all my
>projects.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Richard
>http://www.richardhess.com/tape/
>
>At 01:46 AM 6/13/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>>Does anyone on the list have first-hand experience with this
item? I am
>>interested in any feedback on this and would like any
recommendations of a
>>superior alternative (in the same general price range) for the
purposes of
>>transferring analog (LP, 78 and live sources) to a computer
hard disc and
>>the subsequent creation of CDR or other preservation
formats.
>>
>>Peter Hirsch