...In my opinion, there is too much of a gap between "ear people" and "technical people". The ear people insist that the ear is all that matters. So very often I see someone listening to something and mistakingly expanding their conclusions with far overreaching generalizations. I see technical people look at specs, not realizing that one can have an inaudible 1% distortion and an irritating .01% distortion...
So now you know what I think :-)
Another subscribing to the thread and expressing gratitude and thanks for your expertice, quality grear, attention to the needs of your customers and reasonable design philosophy, Dan!
There has been a good summary of the features desired by our needs outlined so far. I will only add that if this product does end up including memory to act as an all-in-one phantom>preamp>ADC>recorder (SDHC support of 32 gig cards would be welcome), the ability to link a second unit in a master/slave arrangement so that one machine controls the recording functions as well as providing clock would be ideal. That would provide an easy and attractive upgrade path for users starting with two track recording and adding the
capability to run either two seperate identical 2-track rigs or link them for use as a 4-track rig. Just control and clock data need pass between the two machines, each could record to their own media card. That sould also be attractive to the sound for video and film guys that are the usual target market for most of this type of gear.
...Yes, a lot of people use their ears, and I am all for it. I am a musician (I play piano and accordion), and I use my ears. After all, music is for the ears :-)
Hear the one about the accoridan player who left his instrument locked in the back seat of his car and to his horror, returned to find the back window broken and his worst fears confirmed?
Two accordians in the back seat.
Regards and welcome to the forum.