Yes, that's essentially what I meant by getting a bad signal from the D8. Sorry, should have clarified that.
Well, the test is done. I recorded 15 minuites of audio from my UA-5 to both the Gmini and DAT at 44.1 kHz. I then transferred the recording from the DAT to the Gmini and then copied both files to my computer. I took both WAV files, inverted one and mixed it with the other to find any inconsistencies. Result: YES there were some inconsistencies. They were pretty much the same as those reported earlier. I have a nice picture of them to post but I can't figure out how to get it into this message. Any advice?
To rule out whether or not the DAT was the problem, I listened to the origial recording from the Gmini at the points where the inconsistencies occoured. I haven't checked all of them, but YES at least some were present in the Gmini recording and were audible. As mentioned earlier, they sound like little clicks or pops in the audio. They aren't very long, though. I check the length of a couple of inconsistencies, and each was just one sample in length. Some of them were in both left and right channels, but others were in just one.
Well, what now? Is it time to talk to Archos and battle with tech support to see if we can make them understand what's going on here, or should we do a little more testing first?
On the upside, my Gmini has been running for almost 6 hours now without dying on me (while playing music on headphones or recording). I read a post somewhere that someone did in response to prople complaining about only getting 3 hours or less out of the battery. He said to "prime" the battery by running the thing dry right out of the box, fully charging it, and running it dry again several times. That's pretty much what I do. He claimed that he got about 10 hours out of it. We'll se how long this thing runs, but it's doing pretty well so far. I'll do another post when it dies to let everyone know how long it went.
Riley