Has anyone tested the Edirol R4 yet?

[timP]

just wondering...... i know there was some chatter hear when it was first announced
for ~1500 it might not be to bad a deal.... if it has a pre/AD as nice as a UA5...

http://www.edirol.com/products/info/r4.html

[Ed.]

is it out yet?

[Teen Age Riot]

My parents used to drive a Renault R4 back in the 70's....



Sorry, couldn't resist... 

[nickgregory]

I didnt think it was shipping yet

[timP]

saw them for sale online             and didn't know they were not being shipped yet.....


guess that would keep you from being able to test it out

[Genghis Cougar Mellen Khan]

My parents used to drive a Renault R4 back in the 70's....



Sorry, couldn't resist... 

thanks for the laugh

[Diggin]

interesting product, not big on the looks of it though

[John Kelly]

It started shipping late last week.  I'd hope the pres are bit better than the UA5, considering the price.

[Sanjay]

Looks like a nice alternative to the SD 744, at quite a bit less than cost, in a few years these things will be alot cheaper hopefully.

[John Kelly]

Looks like a nice alternative to the SD 744, at quite a bit less than cost, in a few years these things will be alot cheaper hopefully.

And if it had a bit perfect digital input I'd be all over it.  Although I am trying to decide if I really care or not that it resamples.

[Sanjay]

Looks like a nice alternative to the SD 744, at quite a bit less than cost, in a few years these things will be alot cheaper hopefully.

And if it had a bit perfect digital input I'd be all over it.  Although I am trying to decide if I really care or not that it resamples.

What if you just ran straight xlr in? and bypassed the V3 would it resample?

[Brian Skalinder]

What if you just ran straight xlr in? and bypassed the V3 would it resample?

In that case you're feeding it an analog signal and the R4 performs the ADC internally, so...no resampling.  Only if fed a digital signal from an outboard ADC will the R4 resample.  At least that's my understanding.

[John Kelly]

Yeah, resampling only occurs over a digital signal.  So if you were to just use the R4 with no external A/D you wouldn't have to worry about it.  Of course then you'd have to worry about how the preamp sounded.

[Rick]

Of course then you'd have to worry about how the preamp sounded.

Yes, P, T and, W mods need to be done 

[krebsy]

OK , I can't decipher those signal flow diagrams for squat, but are the xlr pairs running separately in the preamp stage on this thing?  In other words channels 1,2 thru one analog circuit, and channels 3,4 thru a seperate analog circuit.  Just imagine it, T-mod on chan. 1,2 and W-mod on chan. 3,4!!  I doubt it works like that, but it sure would be sweet!!   

http://edirol.com/products/info/r4/brochure.pdf