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Title: KORG MR-2
Post by: carrington on September 25, 2013, 11:47:20 PM

http://www.korg.com/mr2

So anyone seen this thing yet? Size of an M10 with DSD recording at 1 bit.  Thoughts?

Title: Re: KORG MR-2
Post by: spyder9 on September 25, 2013, 11:55:12 PM

It's been out for over 3 years.  Here's some threads.

http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=133375.0

http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=152749.msg1933758#msg1933758

Title: Re: KORG MR-2
Post by: twatts (pants are so over-rated...) on September 26, 2013, 12:16:58 AM

Quote from: spyder9 on September 25, 2013, 11:55:12 PM

It's been out for over 3 years.  Here's some threads.

http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=133375.0

http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=152749.msg1933758#msg1933758

I think he's looking for reviews from tapers...  I don't think many people use the MR2???

Personally, DSD wouldn't worth the added expense vs an M-10 (or any other PCM deck), but that's a matter of personal taste...  Though, if you want it, a DSD recorder at $400 ain't a bad deal...

I haven't seen many MR-1000 tapes...  Anyone use one of those???

Terry

Title: Re: KORG MR-2
Post by: F.O.Bean on September 26, 2013, 01:41:11 AM

If DSD playback was easier, it would be one thing. I don't know if you can share DSD recordings or not tho?!?! And you certainly can't listen to them on the road unless you listen thru your recorder!

Title: Re: KORG MR-2
Post by: John Willett on September 26, 2013, 05:44:43 AM

Quote from: carrington on September 25, 2013, 11:47:20 PM

http://www.korg.com/mr2

So anyone seen this thing yet? Size of an M10 with DSD recording at 1 bit.  Thoughts?

Noisy - s/n is 90dB.

Title: Re: KORG MR-2
Post by: H₂O on September 26, 2013, 07:14:59 AM

MR-1 and MR-1000 had better audio specs - Playback nowadays is easier then ever with the Mytek and Teac DAC's - Also Foobar 2000 has a DSD plugin to playback as well (although unless you have a DSD dac it will convert to 24/176.4 on the fly).


I would wait for the D100

Title: Re: KORG MR-2
Post by: carrington on September 26, 2013, 08:18:31 AM

So is DSD kinda going by the wayside?  Richard, is the D100 gonna be made by Sony?

Title: Re: KORG MR-2
Post by: H₂O on September 26, 2013, 09:23:55 AM

Actually DSD is really on the pickup as of late - It kinda floundered a few years back but recently alot of products have come out that support it. 

With Sony PCM-D100 you can now record in DSD 64x (2.8Mhz) DSF format - Korg supported a bunch of formats such as WSD (open source DSD format w/ metadata support), DSF (DFF w/ metadata support - Sony), and DFF (original Sony format similar to WAV)

It seems DSF is what eveything is supporting though

There is a compressed format like FLAC called DST (I believe) but it is not open source also Sony (the files on newer SACDs are stored in this format)

Here's mention of an Onkyo reciever supporting DSF natively over USB as well:
http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f6-dac-digital-analog-conversion/new-onkyo-receiver-tx-nr717-818-can-stream-play-dsd-and-dsf-file-12628/ (http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f6-dac-digital-analog-conversion/new-onkyo-receiver-tx-nr717-818-can-stream-play-dsd-and-dsf-file-12628/)