Topic: NOMAD JUKEBOX CONS?

[reverendjimmy]

Hi again....Ive heard a lot of "pros" about the nomad jukebox and im thinking about getting one.....what are The Con's to the nomad jukebox? id like to hear all the reasons i should NOT get one to record!   Thanks in advance for any help!!

RevJimmy

[Brian Skalinder]

Try searching this and the Recording Gear forum, you'll find lots of discussion around both pros and cons.

[Sean Gallemore]

everything I am about to type is hearsay

1) sub-par mic preamp
2) sub-par adc
3) crappy level meters
4) they are being discontinued, which may affect future tech support and repair services
5) it's a consumer level recorder, not professional grade
6) doesn't support 24-bit recordeing (yet)

some of these aren't CONS, just disadvantages to other recorders, fwiw

[Nick in Edinboro]

I think there are a long list of pro's that out weigh this small list but here's what I can think of:

 - Level's suck.
 - Warrenties short.
 - Consumer grade product, not a piece of pro audio.

[Lee]

add headphone amp to that

[InfiniteOhms]

*headphone amp is total shit
*as is the pre-amp
*not well built, its quite fragile
*hard to get outboard powering working
*the optictal/line in is ressed and requires some mod-ing to fit some miniplugs in
*the software that comes with it sucks
*you cant re-name files on the JB3

Ok .. thats all i got for cons w/o going into "it would be better if ..."

[DaryanLenz]

What about creative tech support, they suck big donkey balls!

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[reverendjimmy]

kk....I think ill just hold out till i can find a real good deal on a used Dat on ebay!

[caymanreview]

awhile back i bought a jb3, i allready owned a M1. and i sold my dat 2 weeks later. dat is a thing of the past, and a jb3 will hold me off till a good HD recorder comes out

i coudnt like my jb3 better. i just transferred 3 shows in 15 minutes from my jb3 > pc.... i dont ahve to buy dat tapes, i dont have misloads... yeah my level meters suck ass but i can deal with that

[nickgregory]

dat is a thing of the past

I know that there are quite a few people who feel this way, but in my opinion, until there is a medium that has a better guarantee on shelf life (CD-R's just dont cut it) as compared with my dat tapes....I still have tapes that are a few years old that work great..I cant say that for some of the old CD-Rs I have

[zhianosatch]

dat is a thing of the past

not yet

[zhianosatch]

Exactly, Spaceman.

[Nick's Picks]

the big con of the JB3, IMO ..is that there is no great way to get a s/pdif signal into it if your output from your ADC is coax.
If this is the case, you will almost always have a click or small dropout in the recording somewhere.

if you can feed it a toslink signal, then it is hands down, w/o doubt 1,000 times better than a sony DAT deck.  Both in ease of use, internal battery life and ESPECIALLY transfering.
No need for sound cards w/bit accurate i/o.
I havent used a DAT deck of my own in two years.


Say what you want about the medium you store your files on.  if you are that hard core about preservation of the files, buy a used DDS drive on eBay and there is your DAT equiv for storage.

[Scuba Jeremy]

Say what you want about the medium you store your files on.  if you are that hard core about preservation of the files, buy a used DDS drive on eBay and there is your DAT equiv for storage.

Love that DDS drive! Just as easy to dump audio to a PC as your JB3 ... albeit in real time. But no worry about bit perfection, or wearing down the heads of my portable DAT.

[Ed.]

con:  jb3 isn't and never will be as respected as a dat deck
pro:  still better than an MD

for me, the pro's out weighed the cons on the jb3, but if i could afford a dat, i probably woulda bought one of those back when i got the jb3.  However, I tape a show just about every week, thats about 3+ hours of recording every week...a lot of dats to buy and a lot of transfer time.

now i'm just waiting patiently for that sd722, as for storage, dvd media seems to be the way to go, at least for me.

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