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I figure I will get two 2 gig cards I just don't what kind to get.

Other then that I'm real excited to get tapeing. This is my first rig, I went with C4's for mics


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Re: I orderd a ACM 660 last week, What brand CF should I buy???
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2006, 11:02:21 AM »
Kingston.  Tried and proven by most who own the Marantz line.

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Re: I orderd a ACM 660 last week, What brand CF should I buy???
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2006, 11:08:45 AM »
Sandisk Ultra II is another.
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Re: I orderd a ACM 660 last week, What brand CF should I buy???
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2006, 11:11:47 AM »
thank you!

Does the speed of the card matter?

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Re: I orderd a ACM 660 last week, What brand CF should I buy???
« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2006, 11:18:44 AM »
Yes.  Don't get the low end models.  They are slow cards, somewhere around 10-20x.  Anything 45x or higher is the way to go.  100x or higher would be overkill because of price, IMO.

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Re: I orderd a ACM 660 last week, What brand CF should I buy???
« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2006, 12:16:24 PM »
Kingston.  Tried and proven by most who own the Marantz line.

agreed, it's also one of the Marantz recommended brands which is a plus.

I'm loving my 660, good luck with it!
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Re: I orderd a ACM 660 last week, What brand CF should I buy???
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2006, 08:25:44 PM »
I figure I will get two 2 gig cards I just don't what kind to get.

Other then that I'm real excited to get tapeing. This is my first rig, I went with C4's for mics



Do yourself a favor and get (1) 4 GB card rather than (2) 2 GB cards. No band will play long enough to fill that sucker up a 16 bit. 2 GB is ~ 3 hours 15 minutes, 4 GB is ~ 6 hours 30 minutes at 16 bit. I use the 4 GB Kingston Elite in my PMD671. I want to get another one for festival type shows this summer.
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Re: I orderd a ACM 660 last week, What brand CF should I buy???
« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2006, 09:25:21 PM »
I figure I will get two 2 gig cards I just don't what kind to get.

Other then that I'm real excited to get tapeing. This is my first rig, I went with C4's for mics



Do yourself a favor and get (1) 4 GB card rather than (2) 2 GB cards. No band will play long enough to fill that sucker up a 16 bit. 2 GB is ~ 3 hours 15 minutes, 4 GB is ~ 6 hours 30 minutes at 16 bit. I use the 4 GB Kingston Elite in my PMD671. I want to get another one for festival type shows this summer.

for the money youd save buying the cf card reader in the yard sale rather than buying another 4GB card, id highly check those sweet cf card+HD units out, they can have a 60GB HD and read the cards at 16MB/sec

i think when i jump for the 671, im gonna get (1) 4GB CF Cards and the portadrive and be set for festies
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Re: I orderd a ACM 660 last week, What brand CF should I buy???
« Reply #8 on: May 07, 2006, 10:04:57 PM »
Bean, are those storage devices proven in the field? I can think of nothing worse than dumping audio data to one of those at a festival and finding out later (after formating and recording more on the CF card) that the data is not there or it is corrupt.
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Re: I orderd a ACM 660 last week, What brand CF should I buy???
« Reply #9 on: May 07, 2006, 10:08:24 PM »
Bean, are those storage devices proven in the field? I can think of nothing worse than dumping audio data to one of those at a festival and finding out later (after formating and recording more on the CF card) that the data is not there or it is corrupt.

ive read my share of reviews of the nice ones that are 150-200 dollars and everything ive read has been pretty positive

they constantly verify the data after its written and can dump a 4GB card in about 5 mins
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Re: I orderd a ACM 660 last week, What brand CF should I buy???
« Reply #11 on: May 08, 2006, 06:51:33 PM »
How much $$ are these running now? Do you have any info on what brand or model is the most reliable?
+T for the research :)
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Re: I orderd a ACM 660 last week, What brand CF should I buy???
« Reply #12 on: May 10, 2006, 04:50:04 PM »
add the 80x Ridata cards to the list of CF that works w/ the 660
got the ACm 660 today and it worked fine for my living room testing.
trying it at a show tomorrow (The Nighthawks)
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Re: I orderd a ACM 660 last week, What brand CF should I buy???
« Reply #13 on: May 10, 2006, 05:01:48 PM »
Even though we all use the Kingston cards with success, I have read on the Oade board that they are still not a preffered card, nor are they on the Marantz recomended list.

Sandisc is solid.  And I dont believe that speed will equal anything other than batteries that draining faster when we are talking about 16bit recording w/the 660.  So just go cheap, and you'll be fine.  Several 2gbs, a 4gb..shit, i'd even run a microdrive in one of those suckers, though that will certainly affect the battery life.

Then agaian, with 7 hour runtimes on good nimh AAs, who cares.

Just dont cheap out and get some noname ass brand.  that will certainly not work.
Lexar is another on the list.

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Re: I orderd a ACM 660 last week, What brand CF should I buy???
« Reply #14 on: May 13, 2006, 09:46:24 AM »
I'm getting a 660 from Oade and I had this same question.  I read your stuff at the oade board too Nick.  Thanks, as always for your research on this stuff.  Dank, the ridata cards are super cheap.  Still going good with your ridata?  I think I am going to order one from newegg this weekend.  Ridata ritek pro 2 gb cards are $49 plus $5 for super reliable newegg shipping. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=ENE&N=2000170068+1053107923+105331373&Subcategory=68&description=&srchInDesc=&minPrice=&maxPrice=

By the way, I just bought an older version of the cf > HDD backup device that is in the yard sale for $48 shipped on ebay.  It is a 2mb/s transfer rate so a 2 gb card should take about 11 minutes.  I have a spare 40GB lappy drive that I will put into the barebones reader.  in is a compact drive pd6a.  Slower than the newer ones, but for $40 you can't go wrong.  There is always more than 15 minutes between sets!  For 24bit it may not be fast enough, but for 16bit it should be fine.  I'll report back on that after I get it and play for a bit.
     Thanks for the info guys.  Dank, please let me know (or anyone who has used one with a marantz) about the Ridata cards.

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