Had the same experience with my new DR70, after installation of fresh ENELOOP PRO 2500mA and updated to ver 1.13.
Sofar it looks like I have a stable recorder (8Gb card) but my battery indicator seam to behave badly and it certainly looks like Alkaline/NiMh selector has been switched or algoritme is weak. most of the time it shows 50% left.
I have another peculiar thing that does no harm but is yet annoying in menues.
I do not like that the phrase "MIC" is used for diferent things in menues, it should be distinguissed where needed (internal MIC, external etc..)
If ch 3/4 is set up for internal "MIC"'s it is still possible to select phantom power on 3/4.
I assume that is not intentional and does not show on display but is yet selectable in menu INPUT/INPUT GAIN.
I am missing PREREC of at least 5 secs which should be no big deal as any small recorder like M10 has a similar functionality.
it has been decribed before but I also would like to have Monitor to each channel / channelpair.
It looks like my version is very sensitive to switching phantom powered devices which has caused malfunction that needed repowering, but any technician would know that this of course should be done unpowered
Despite of this, this little device behaves like a charm and i have been playing almost glitchless with several different setups and input sofar.
IMO, you NEED a bigger USB battery for any real runtimes on your 70D
I have [6] 10,000mah USB batteries that I use for my 70D. USB batteries can be easily and cheaply found abiout anywhere now, so this is a big plus for the 70D IMO
I get ABOUT 1hr/1,000mah, so about 10 hours with a 10,000mah USB battery. Thats running 4 channels@24/96, with 2 channels on PHANTOM.
Unfortunately, its not possible to monitor each channel on its own
That is now a function of the 701-D, but not the 70D
So I honestly think we'll NEVER see a fix on the monitor situation of the 70D. They have taken some things that we wanted to see on the 70D in firmware upgrades, and made them standard functions on the 701-D, so either upgrade to the 701-D, or do without most of those things
Frankly, I do no kind of video recording, and the regular 70D does EXACTLY what I need it to do, when I'm just recording audio. So while the 701-D is new and pretty and has things we desired for our 70D's, I have ZERO reasons to upgrade to the 701-D!!! The 70D menu isn't cluttered with a million settings like most 4 channel decks, and its pretty bare-bones, but that's what I love about it. Just set your basic settings and BAM, you're ready to go
Now if Tascam really fixed the "Write Timeout" errors, then I think this recorder has the potential to really blow up, but ONLY after Tascam addresses the WT errors and makes it as reliable for EVERYONE, as it has been for me the last 9 months
Hopefully v1.13 firmware is the savior that we have all been waiting for, and I'm VERY curious to read this thread in the coming weeks/months, to see if the Write Timeout error has truly been fixed!!