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Title: Microtrack II discontinued??
Post by: rav on March 15, 2008, 03:59:43 AM

It seems that m-audio have stopped the production of microtrack as you can not find it anywhere.

Probably they are working in the 1/4" unbalanced mic input noise issue and in a new firmware that solve the big cards seen as 8gb cards.

Could anybody confirm that?

Why is taking so long for such a big company?

Thanks in advance.

Best.

Title: Re: Microtrack II discontinued??
Post by: guysonic on March 15, 2008, 04:49:16 PM

Sent mine in for 'repair' of now known issues including lack of full bandwidth in 88.2K sample mode. 

Got a call from tech supervisor three+ weeks ago offering me a refund (which I requested if not repairable) or wait a bit more for chance of resolution.

Chose to wait to see if MT2 could be 'fixed' and maybe same situation with current production on hold to see if problems with at least the hardware have solution.

Title: Re: Microtrack II discontinued??
Post by: guysonic on April 11, 2008, 08:16:18 AM

Quote from: guysonic on March 15, 2008, 04:49:16 PM

Sent mine in for 'repair' of now known issues including lack of full bandwidth in 88.2K sample mode. 

Got a call from tech supervisor three+ weeks ago offering me a refund (which I requested if not repairable) or wait a bit more for chance of resolution.

Chose to wait to see if MT2 could be 'fixed' and maybe same situation with current production on hold to see if problems with at least the hardware have solution.

Got word yesterday from M-audio tech my sent-in-for-repair or refund is NOT repairable for known issues, and purchase price for MT2 is being refunded.

So for sure unbalanced input noise issue is now officially an MT2 'product feature' as explained by M-Audio.

(http://www.sonicstudios.com/-35dBu_SnagIt.gif)

However, although not mentioned, the 88.2K bandwidth shortcoming with MT2 applying wrong filter may still be firmware corrected, but I'll never know for not getting the unit back to bench test.

I hope for owners of MT2 using 88.2K mode at least this issue is not a 'standard feature' and will eventually be fixed with a firmware update.  So those using 88.2K sampling rate might still have a non-addressed problem with ~ 20,000 cycle bandwidth limitation until further notice.

So no MT2 technical review, and I will continue to use my MT1 as the better Microtrack model version for acceptable analog input performance reasons.
(See MT1 review at www.sonicstudios.com/mt2496rv.htm (http://www.sonicstudios.com/mt2496rv.htm)