Marantz PMD 671 announced (on Oade)

[caymanreview]

nice. but there is a store selling them for 799 all the time, so that isnt really a great deal

[spreetaper]

ah i see some of the stores that had them at 799.. went up to 849 and 899

[JasonSobel]

For those of you who are as curious about this as I am, I just got off the phone with one of the Marantz tech engineers.  We had been emailing back and forth a few times over the past month or so, and I had sent him an email about file sizes and autosplit features, because I haven't seen anything about this possible issue yet.  He called me about 10 minutes after I wrote the email, very nice guy. 

Anyway, the 671 will default to autosplit at 4 gigs.  (all seamless, of course).  Alternatively, you can set it up to autosplit after a given time limit.  So you can't tell it to autosplit after 2 gigs, but you can tell it to autosplit after 2 hours, or 1.5 hours, or whatever.  In my mind, that works just as well

This thing looks pretty good, I'll probably buy in the near future.

[F.O.Bean]

can it take microdrives too

[caymanreview]

can it take microdrives too

that is a hell of a ?

the microdrives are CHEAP... im ordering mine tomorrow, and im gonna grab a 4gb CF card and a smaller microdrive to test. if the microdrive works, it may be a viable option untill CF cost comes down

bout 3 bills for a 4gb CF card, and about 150 for a 4gb microdrive

[Govt Mule]

Mirco drives are cheap becuase they perform poorly. You are asking a lot from a microdrive for it to write non stop for 2 hours.

[caymanreview]

right on, i have had zero experience with microdrives before now

im doing the CF cards anyways, just thought i mivght try one. now il just order an extra cf card

[F.O.Bean]

i am gonna have to wait till the 4GBcards come down, and w/ out searching, how long is 4GB at 24/48 and 24/96 4 hrs at 24/96 right

hmmm, 3 bills is a bit expensive tho per 4gb card

[caymanreview]

4gb = ~4hrs at 24/48 and 2hrs at 24/96

im getting ready to call Frank to just put my deposit down on a 722. after looking into all the costs with everything here, i could just sell my v3 and get a 722, then if need be put a pre in front of that

[esteyes]

greetings all. i wrote to Bill at D&M support today and asked about brand/speed/etc for the CF cards and indicated i would be using 4G almost exclusively. here was the reply:

HI Neil,
   I would stick with Lexar brand cards.

Bill Loulousis
Tech Support Supervisor
D&M Professional
(866) 405-2154 - Toll Free
www.d-mpro.com

Lexar does make a 40x CF card as well as an 80x""enhanced write" in the 4G range. hard to find the 40x, for me at least, and when i did find it it was bundled with a frickin reader and the price was only $30 less than the 80x super duper photo "write enhanced"  version. so i wrote back again asking if the write enhanced cards by Lexar were a problem in any way and what were their experiences with microdrives... i mentioned i could get a 6G micro for ~$250; that's 3 hrs of 24/96k, i believe... so i hope to get an answer back tomorrow and i will post it.

neil
fwiw, i am a long time taper - still have reels as well as my cassettes as well as PCM-beta's and 20k+ hrs on dat. so having been thru all the issues of drop outs/etc with many forms of media, i want to make what i hope to be one of my last transitions to be painless. i have 4 kids, so choices have to be made with respect to costs as well - just like everyone else. i have basically committed to doug that i wannt one ASAP, hoping to make the media side work out w/o too much pain.

[F.O.Bean]

heres my question about this.

someone said that it autosplits at 4GB, well, if you only have one 4GB flashcard, it obviously cant seamlessly write to something

so, can you hold more than one flash card at a time so you could maybe hold 3-4 flashcards in the pmd-671 at once so it could keep simutaneously writing if ya had enuf cf media

make sense

just wondering...

[JasonSobel]

I'm pretty sure there is only one CF-card slot, so I think you're getting at will not work.

with a 4 gig CF card (and right now, I don't think anyone is planning on dropping $1500 on an 8 gig card), with a 4 gig card, the best bet is to record at 24/48 (which gets you four hours), and wait until media prices drop before recording at 24/96.  At least, that's my plan.

[caymanreview]

yeah just one CF card slot. 4gb cards arent too bad in price, and you can def snag some decent brand 4gb CF cards on ebay for decent prices too

what would happen with a 4gb audio file? is this thing not applicable to anything related to the 2gb issues we have with laptops and such???

[John Kelly]

yeah just one CF card slot. 4gb cards arent too bad in price, and you can def snag some decent brand 4gb CF cards on ebay for decent prices too

what would happen with a 4gb audio file? is this thing not applicable to anything related to the 2gb issues we have with laptops and such???

It's either using an extended format (such as wav64 or SDIIextended) or it's using wav files that don't conform to the actual specs (using unsigned integers instead of signed).  Wont know until someone asks Marantz or makes a recording.

[caymanreview]

isnt the 2gb limit something associated with ntfs or fat32 file systems? since this is flash will that not matter? but will your pc have a hard time with 4gb files if this will handle em?