OK now that I've posted that, I am going to bring up the next major problem I am having with this recorder. It looks like Gustav Mahler, and it's called Voltronic.
You are really pushing it with me, trying to limit my freedom of expression, and I will not soon forget this.
Why are you still on this thread, anyway? You're not contributing anything helpful to the discussion. Instead, you jump on here every time someone brings up an issue and call for product recalls or a grand inquisition. Since the Tascam rep isn't here anymore to read those, what's the point, other than your own self-gratification? You know full well that the things you're asking for have zero chance of ever happening. I get the need to vent your frustration, but it's really starting to get old and tired - someone please change the record. Some of us here want to actually talk about using this unit, and to help each other figure things out even when we have had some very serious disagreements (such as Tonedeaf and myself). If you aren't even using the 70D anymore, maybe it's time to move on.
I am not using the DR-70D much anymore because that recorder, and this thread are bumming me out a lot! It's hard to even want to try to make a recording with the piece of junk, when I KNOW that I need to run it as the B-unit due to its lack of reliability. But, that said, do I not have a right to participate in a discussion? Even inject my opinions which are different from yours? No?
I will not "MOVE ON" - especially now that it was suggested by the insufferable Gus.
Deal with me.
That post was written in anger in frustration, and I may have gone too far. I also recognize that I committed a cardinal Internet sin of feeding the trolls (be they perceived or real). So I had your angry response coming, I suppose.
I can deal with complaints. In spite of what Tonedeaf says, I'm not in love with Tascam - in fact my opinion of them as a company has been steadily dropping based on their complete non-responsiveness to my customer service inquiries over the course of several months, and I've let them know about it (though I'm still apparently being ignored).
I've checked out your "Gripe" thread, and think that's probably a good outlet. If even half of the things I'm reading there are true, then Tascam really does have quite the track record of crap, and I probably would not have not bought a 70D had I known about all of that.
But what I can't deal with, and what pushed me over the edge to say what I said, was the continued celebration that we lost a valuable resource in the form of a company rep contributing here because some members here were rude enough to him to make him want to leave. Again, I think he should have stuck around and defended himself / his company, and told him as much privately. But, thin-skinned or not, Tom was a way for us to finally get some specific answers (even if you didn't like what they were) and I was really PO'd when he left. So when you guys started with the "good riddance", "product recalls", etc. stuff again, I got really annoyed with all of the mindless repetition of it all and that's why I wrote what I did.
I wasn't trying to limit your freedom of expression, but if that's how you feel, then I'm sorry. I'll do my part and stop responding when you or anyone else posts a complaint unless I have something helpful or productive to say.
But please leave poor Gustav out of this. He wrote some great music, and had to deal with a pretty rough personal life.
