I've read through the thread and am looking at possibly buying a 661, but I am confused by the manual's description of the mic/line/phantom switch on the underside of the recorder. It seems to be a 3 way switch - mic-in phantom on / mic-in phantom off / line-in. So does the phantom power only supply to mics when going mic-in? Or is phantom always on when going line-in? Also, does the mic attenuation option up to -18dB only apply when going mic-in, not line-in?
Max line-in input on XLR's could be +6.5dBu according to Marantz or +15dBu according to Doug Oade (!). Is this with the -18dB switch, or as questioned above, would it not affect the line-in XLR input?
One final question, what is the nominal / maximum input for mic-in XLR?
Thanks for any answers you can give.