Topic: Korg MR-2 - just announced at Musikmesse

[sunjan]

for me it has a lot of interesting features compared to the MR1: no noisy harddrive, USB power, build in mics, sd cards, exchangeble batteries.
Looks really great for me though. If the quality will be ok, I´ll go for it. What will be the price in the US?

Not up in the US yet. A few Euro sites have it listed for  EUR627/GBP548:
http://www.production-room.com/korg/korg-mr2/

IMHO, the price tag is way expensive for the features we are using. Street price will have to go down a lot before it can compete with other pocket units. Mind you, most of the pros you mention are already implemented in R09-HR, M10 etc...

[RTD]

yea, find it also kinda expensive. I would do it for around 500$.

[flintstone]

Well, the same site lists the MR-1 at  GBP305 GBP, which is equivalent to USD469.  We can purchase the MR-1 in USA for USD350, sometimes less.  That's about 25% cheaper than the store in England.  Reducing the MR-2's quoted price of 548 GBP by 25%,  the price of the MR-2 in USA becomes USD632. 

Looking at the problem another way, Korg products like the MR-1000 are discounted by about 33% in USA.  If Korg sets the MSRP of the MR-2 at $899,
then the USA street price will settle in at $600 a few weeks after the product is released.

Flintstone

[H₂O]

I just don't see them selling too many of these if the street price is much above $300 with the M10, R-09hr, etc avail.
 
Good luck to them if the do try and sell it for higher - but I just don't see it taking off.
 
Especially when you can get a used MR-1 for $175-225 range (sometimes even below $150) and a new one for around $250-300 (sometimes below $200).
 
 

[M]

^true that!

I want one, but I'm not gonna spend stupid amounts of money for it.

[Nick's Picks]

ouch.
well, the MR1 was near that price when first announced.  I recall fondly..as I shelled out for one.
the 2nd one I bought brand spankin' new for $200.
eBay.  Smokin'Joe now runs it.  Trusty deck.

[jtblackmore]

I like my MR-1000, but I would like to see a 4-track version...That's the only thing I'm jealous of my friends R-44 is those extra tracks it can record. Imagine running 2 mic's and 2 channels off the soundboard or 4 channels with various mic configurations to capture the complete room sound. ahh...Dreaming...

[jaz]

Fact: DSD is better and more responsive then 24 bit. So again with the no digital in.... big deal, in fact a digital in would decrease the available quality this unit has to offer. I like the SD memory. I would say by the specs that the SD card is the only improvement on the previous model.  I LOVE my MR-1, of course it runs off an external battery. Only issue with the MR-1 in my book is the noisy pre's (I dont use them though)     

[it-goes-to-eleven]

Fact: DSD is better and more responsive then 24 bit.

What do you use for playback?

[jaz]

1/8 -> Splitter -> Dynaco Mark III Mono blocks -> Vintage Cerwin Vaga D-3's. Or resample in AudioGate and playback through lynx L22.    At any rate I'll stick with may MR-1 and not go for the soon to come "upgrade"