can you playback straight from the 671 to see if the hiss is there?
Check that - the hiss may be the internal noise from your pc.....
when I play back on the 671 it sounds great. when I play from the CF card or trasfer to the Dell D600 laptop it has a lot of noise.
I just recorded another artist last night and have the same problem. I am using adobe Audition. I tracked in cdwave and then burned to cd in audition and cd has all the noise on it. I downloaded the trial version os sound forge 8 and had the same issues....bummin here.
I tried all the same on a different laptop a brand new Dell D610 and it was the same.
Do you hear the noise when you are tracking in CDWAV?
Yes it is there in CDWave
Vince, have you had the 671 updated for the new .wav spec yet? I don't know if you remember it from when we talked, but you need to get the update from marantz in order to be able to transfer 24bit files dirrectly from the card or through USB. It has to do with where the extra 8bits of information is, marantz listened to microsoft engineers and went with a new spec that hasn't panned out. If you transfer the data through the coax out the 8 bits of information are shifted into the correct order and you won't have the static issues. Doug suggested trying to record in .bwf (broadcast wav) format, but it doesn't fix the problem, you need that update or you're stuck doing real-time transfers for 24 bit recordings.
If you've already had the update done try playing the files in winamp.
Also, if you're buring the files to cd, you must convert them to 16 bit.
If you're still having problems I don't mind giving you a tech support call, just shoot over your # through a PM.