Topic: Neoros HD 1st gen. and 2nd gen difference?

[arawak420]

does anyone know what the difference that has been done to the 2 models?
 hopefully the 2nd gen now has digi-in.

one model is grey which i think is first, and the 2nd gen is black.  they say digital audio recrder, but from what im hearing here it records in analog and is then converted internally to digital. is that bad or good?

can i run a MIC2496 portable a/d converter from core sounds to it? between the mics and the neuros?

can i up the analog recording> home a/d converter> my pc? what kind of qauility loss are we looking at here?

these neuros look quite nice.

[Sean Gallemore]

does anyone know what the difference that has been done to the 2 models?
 hopefully the 2nd gen now has digi-in.

the 2nd generation, or all black models have 256MB of Flash memory, up from the 64 or 128 depending on how it was bought.  No digi-in

one model is grey which i think is first, and the 2nd gen is black.  they say digital audio recrder, but from what im hearing here it records in analog and is then converted internally to digital. is that bad or good?

it takes an analog signal and converts it to digital internally

can i run a MIC2496 portable a/d converter from core sounds to it? between the mics and the neuros?

no, the mic2496 only has digi-outs and the Neuros does not have a digi-in

can i up the analog recording> home a/d converter> my pc? what kind of qauility loss are we looking at here?

no need.  You can directly transfer the data from the Neuros to a PC/Mac with a USB2.0 cable.  No quality loss.

these neuros look quite nice.

yeah, a little thick, but it still fits in my pocket, even with the extra battery, and it's built well.

[arawak420]

Quote from: arawak420 on Today at 07:15:09pm
can i up the analog recording> home a/d converter> my pc? what kind of qauility loss are we looking at here?


"no need.  You can directly transfer the data from the Neuros to a PC/Mac with a USB2.0 cable.  No quality loss."


can i make the analog recording digital by running it through a  home a/d converter>pc?
not good or keep analog?

[Brian Skalinder]

can i make the analog recording digital by running it through a  home a/d converter>pc?

Theoretically, yes.  But the Neuros/JB3/portable DAT recorders don't make analog recordings, only digital recordings, so the question is moot.

[Sean Gallemore]

can i make the analog recording digital by running it through a  home a/d converter>pc?
not good or keep analog?

the Neuros does not record in analog

[arawak420]

in another thread it said that the neuros didnt have digital in, that it converts the analog recording to digital internally. neuro doesnt have optical in to plug in a a/d converter does it?

neuros doesnt have optical in like the jb3 does.

i want the neuro but no optical in makes me steer from it.

[arawak420]

Schwillaby you don't prefer the optical in? are you selective. with the jb3 i can attach a better a/d converter later on? neuros i cant at all?

you've owned both whcich in a/d do you like better, stats.specs.....

give us the dirty dirty on em. im poor as ever but there is a Midnite tour coming up here. plus Melodians,mighty diamonds,abyssinians,etc.... so cal

[Sean Gallemore]

Schwillaby you don't prefer the optical in? are you selective. with the jb3 i can attach a better a/d converter later on? neuros i cant at all?

you've owned both whcich in a/d do you like better, stats.specs.....

give us the dirty dirty on em. im poor as ever but there is a Midnite tour coming up here. plus Melodians,mighty diamonds,abyssinians,etc.... so cal

an adc coverts an analog signal to a digital one.  Since the Neuros has an internal ADC, it both converts the signal to digital AND records that digital signal.

If you want to later add on something like an AD-20 or mic2496 or UA-5 or V3 or miniMe or GMIC-20, then JB3 is probably the way to go.  ANy other relevant specs are spelled out in many previous posts in the other thread.

[zhianosatch]

like i mentioned in the other thread, finding an "analog v. digital" faq on the web somewhere would probably be a good idea, arawak.
also consider the size and shape of each unit.
armen