Topic: TEAM Marantz PMD 660 (Part II)

[bobbygeeWOW]

Hi, I'm sorry I don't have any suggestions but thought I would add that I've run my deck in blazing hot 4-day festival with no problem.
Only problem i encountered was a bunk CF card once. (first time out of course..)

[tfs8271]

^ It has to be heat. I've never had this problem and I keep my rig out side the bag or in huge fanny pack that I carry it in. Most of the time the 660 is resting against my mic stand pointing upwards so I can see it while I'm dancing.

GDfan.........Could you have had your deck sitting on the floor board of your car or resting on the center console of a standard manual transmission car? They can get reather hot from the heat of your transmission and engine. Just a thought.

[GDfan]

auto transmission , and it was on the back seat for 10min, then spyder9 was fiddling with it for a couple minutes, he listened to part of it and then listened to his edirol, went back to listen to mine and it was non responsive.

it dun ded

[GDfan]

I got my SRA # from Marantz this morning, shipped out the 660, I'll see what they say in a few days.

[Jammin72]

I'll keep posting this in regard to the 660, just because a CF card works on your computer does not mean that the 660 likes it.  I went through the tech support circle trying to get an issue solved with my 660 using a Sandisk card that I thought was working just fine. If you call Marantz tech support they'll blame the card every time unless it's a Lexar Card.  If you call Sandisk to get a new card they'll blame incompatibility with the machine.  I had my 660 Lock up during recording for a card that worked in everything else I threw it into. I got to the point where I was ready to just sell the machine because I couldn't count on it as being a reliable device.  Finally bucked up and purchased the Lexar and had zero problems from there on out.  They've tweaked this box with this media in mind and it shows. If you own one of these and want real assistance from Marantz use the recommended media.

This almost reminds me of the 'ole 90meter DDS debate.
 

[danlynch]

I used the 660 and the same SanDisk card flawlessly last night to record a set that was slightly more than 90 minutes. 

[intpseeker]

I'll keep posting this in regard to the 660, just because a CF card works on your computer does not mean that the 660 likes it.  I went through the tech support circle trying to get an issue solved with my 660 using a Sandisk card that I thought was working just fine. If you call Marantz tech support they'll blame the card every time unless it's a Lexar Card.  If you call Sandisk to get a new card they'll blame incompatibility with the machine.  I had my 660 Lock up during recording for a card that worked in everything else I threw it into. I got to the point where I was ready to just sell the machine because I couldn't count on it as being a reliable device.  Finally bucked up and purchased the Lexar and had zero problems from there on out.  They've tweaked this box with this media in mind and it shows. If you own one of these and want real assistance from Marantz use the recommended media.

This almost reminds me of the 'ole 90meter DDS debate.
 

When i got my acm660 from Doug Oade, he was recommending Lexar, Viking and PNY on Marantz's say so.

I have all three and only had trouble once with a PNY card in the slot. Lost the second set of a kick-ass RRE show, nothing there to recover, even though all the pretty lights danced throughout the set. Never happened again and I've use that card repeatedly since.

[tfs8271]

Don't use any of those cards and I've never had any problems mentioned above. Only with power and ever sense I bought a 5 V battery pack not one issue. Love my 660. Most of the time it sounds better than my R4.

[intpseeker]

Don't use any of those cards and I've never had any problems mentioned above. Only with power and ever sense I bought a 5 V battery pack not one issue. Love my 660. Most of the time it sounds better than my R4.

What 5 volt pack do you use?

[NOLAfishwater]

Don't use any of those cards and I've never had any problems mentioned above. Only with power and ever sense I bought a 5 V battery pack not one issue. Love my 660. Most of the time it sounds better than my R4.

What 5 volt pack do you use?

It is small, 11 Watt hours and is only $49.95
http://www.bixnet.com/misihicabapa.html 

or a step up from that

Here is the next step up: 26 Watt hours and is $69.95
http://www.bixnet.com/5v7libapa.html

or the 44 Watt Hour model for $99.00 this is the one I bought
http://www.bixnet.com/mumiexbapaki1.html

I chose external batteries b/c of the fact that you don't have to worry about changing them and you can take them to festies and run all day on the one that I bought.

[intpseeker]

Don't use any of those cards and I've never had any problems mentioned above. Only with power and ever sense I bought a 5 V battery pack not one issue. Love my 660. Most of the time it sounds better than my R4.

What 5 volt pack do you use?

It is small, 11 Watt hours and is only $49.95
http://www.bixnet.com/misihicabapa.html 

or a step up from that

Here is the next step up: 26 Watt hours and is $69.95
http://www.bixnet.com/5v7libapa.html

or the 44 Watt Hour model for $99.00 this is the one I bought
http://www.bixnet.com/mumiexbapaki1.html

I chose external batteries b/c of the fact that you don't have to worry about changing them and you can take them to festies and run all day on the one that I bought.

Nice. What kind of run time do you get with that little one?

[GDfan]

I got my 660 back in the mail today from Marantz, on the invoice it simply stated:

System Rom.

I am guessing a bad chip on the board.

nice turn around time from Marantz. good customer service.

[NOLAfishwater]

good to hear that you got it fixed so quickly. I just put my Busman 660 on the yard sale. I don't care if it sells or not. It is a great box and don't mind holding on to it.

[motobill]

good to hear that you got it fixed so quickly. I just put my Busman 660 on the yard sale. I don't care if it sells or not. It is a great box and don't mind holding on to it.

Don't see it, but I'm interested so PM me with info.

[NOLAfishwater]

good to hear that you got it fixed so quickly. I just put my Busman 660 on the yard sale. I don't care if it sells or not. It is a great box and don't mind holding on to it.

Don't see it, but I'm interested so PM me with info.

I sent you an email.