Oogled the FR-2 at B&H today.
It had two flavors:
1) ~$1300 FR-2 Plain Vanilla
2) ~$1500 FR-2W included Toshiba 5GB PCMCIA HD and the wallwart supply.
Wallwart was in stock at ~$50, no case available yet.
FYI, they also had a Superscope PMD-670, D-8, D-100, PCM-M1, and a DAP-1 in the showcase.
The FR-2 was looking very tempting. Had a lappy and 20 lbs. of presentation materials with me, which tipped the scale against walking home with it today. I really want to hear the front-end of this thing with some mics which I'm familiar in a setting that I can relate to.
Somewhere I think I saw specs of s/n 87db on the mic input. I need to reread that manual.
I noticed the Keyboard USB and the 'puter USB connections.
Is that for a Midi Keyboard or a USB computer keyboard ?
I definitely need to reread the manual, because you've got me wondering if you can trigger this thing via a Midi keyboard directly. It might be very cool to sample and trigger, say a phish riff or a piece of a candidate's speech.......
Back to the Fostex website.