Topic: getting back into taping after a break

[Big Perm]

I have nothing more really to say about all of this except i ran a stock 671 (im assuming its very simular to the 661) for several years and my ears really liked the a/d on it.  That being said, if you decide to go with something different, I will take that sonasax off you hands   LEts make a deal

[stevetoney]

Good to hear.  I wonder what was up with those reports I read?

I think you're referring to one of my previous posts.  Honestly, after thinking about it some more, I have to revise my input to say that I don't know what was up with the 661.  In retrospect, perhaps I shouldn't have posted because I didn't fully diagnose what my own issue was.  Since I was using the 661 as a bitbucket, I never needed to figure it out further. 

Anyway, when I had the 661, I wanted to test how the unit sounded through the XLRs, so I set it up with my Oade preamps outputting to the XLRs.  In this configuration, I was getting significant noise using the XLRs.  Since I'd read previously that unbalanced inputs to the 661 was a no-go, I just made an assumption that was the problem and didn't diagnose any further.  However, now that I'm thinking more about it, since I didn't do any diagnosis for myself, I don't know for sure if this is absolutely true...my previous statement was based on an assumption that what I'd read about the XLRs was actually true.