Topic: Korg MR-1 and MR-1000 - News DSD Recorders announced at AES

[SClassical]

Ooooo, ahhh, an MR-1.  Anyone here in line for a MR-1000?  Colin, how much was the MR-1 to the door?  Your invoice is blurry.   

It is charging right now, but I am not sure if it is charging or not.  When the unit is off and plugged in, it does not show anything, so I can't tell if it is actually charging.

Hey that is what I told you a few weeks ago when I was charging mine! You have to guess when the charge is complete. I'm actually using a stealthable battery and made some stealthable cables for my MR-1. Might post some pictures if people are interested.

[Colin Liston]

One more shot of the contents of the box. 

The plug  , why so big?  Pleather Case, MR-1, and the "Mic"

[mandoman]

Ooooo, ahhh, an MR-1.  Anyone here in line for a MR-1000?  Colin, how much was the MR-1 to the door?  Your invoice is blurry.   

I'm going mr-1000 on preorder with Sweetwater. I was also told first week of April.

[Nick's Picks]

my MR1 is coming today or monday.
probably mon due to the blizzard we are in the middle of.

[Nick's Picks]

no.

I might have several of them though...so if they are of stock in two weeks, I might be able to loose one.

[WiFiJeff]

Well I've got mine (from SP).  Any one tried using an external DC battery with this yet? I'll try giving it a run Sunday.

Jeff

[jtharris]

Can someone be kind enough to post a real-life battery length metric?

[Nick's Picks]

huh?
I thought the factory said only a couple hours on the internal.
figure on the a good 5v 5amp pack to run it a long time, id' guess.

[rdvdijk]

With the units finally coming in, maybe it's time to start a new "hands on experience" thread? This one is getting big with 23 pages..

Roel

[Nick's Picks]

indeed.
Mine arrives tomorrow, and I'm taking it out in the field on Wed.
I will definetely post the recording, my thoughts, pictures, what not..etc,
and if someone will walk me through the resistor test, i'll gladly do that too.

[guysonic]

OK, now I'm curious and seriously looking for MR-1 deck loan to do an MR-1 technical review. 

We need to know what is going on with the analog inputs if going to use this deck in most effective manner.

One of you guys may have a spare from double ordering, and everyone seems to agree somebody needs to do at least the gain, noise and frequency graphs.  Also nice to get a handle on the power consumption issues for getting long running times. 

I'll pay FedEx shipping both ways.

Expect to do similar like reviewed MT2496, R-09, partial on Zoom H4 at:
www.sonicstudios.com/mt2496rv.htm
www.sonicstudios.com/r-09revw.htm
www.sonicstudios.com/zoomh4rv.htm

[landshark]

FYI, Sam Ash was also inaccurate on their website after I called to follow up on my order, so I too switched to Sweetwater.  They called me to apologize that there would be a delay, gave me the exact day it would ship, and actually shipped it that day!  Kudos to Sweetwater.  So I have the unit, but am still waiting on the in-line phantom power units for my AKG mics (2x B-15s) so have only been able to test using the included mics. 

[simplicisimus]

I've been monitoring this tread from it's beggining, wondering how 'good' these recorders really are...after I buyed mr-1000 (couple days ago), I joined the discution just to share my houmble opinion, and maybe help some of you to choice your new recording companion

I've done some 'documentary picture' recordings with it, and most important thing I have to say is that this baby is beautiful sounding! Internal preamp section is avarage good, pritty decent (better then R4's!!)
but maybe still little 'muffy' for the hi-hi-end production. I buyed a RME QUADMIC to companion MR-1000 in a field, and i'm very very very (!) happy with the combination of the two! The sound is so focused, with extended depth and open clarity character, sounding very 'pleasent' and 'warm', very much like 'analogue feel'...

Everything else on this recorder doesn't give confidance that it's really 'profesional' recording device... leak of many various system & setup options you would hope to see on such a device, and for that we'll have to blame KORG engenners, for not having in mind all that things that every sound recordist wish to have in a field with it's recorder. (Recording can't be set to mono (one) channel only!, monitoring can't be selectable (left or right, or both! - it's left headphone L channel, right headphone R channel!) and the monitor (headphone) output is leaking power, and can't provide that much monitoring gain you may required...

I hope that KORG can fix that problems in a future, releasing some firmware updates and organizing 'software' circuit inside that would provide us with more flexibility...(if it can be done?) ...'couse this baby's really SCREAMING QUALITY!

I can compare it directly to edirol R4, and Fostex PD4 (since I used R4 & PD4 in some film productions in a past year), and I have to say that i'm very pleased with the sound i got with MR1000 (with the QUADMIC in front of it), it just blows away the mentioned two, in a terms of depth, clarity, warm, and overall sound 'sweetness' !

hope this helps someone...

cheers!
 

[newblue]

This is from the Sweetwater website regarding the MR-1000...

We've confirmed this item will ship soon from Korg and should arrive in our warehouse the week of 4/08. Go ahead, place your order now. We will ship it immediately, the very same day we receive it from Korg.

[mandoman]

This is from the Sweetwater website regarding the MR-1000...

We've confirmed this item will ship soon from Korg and should arrive in our warehouse the week of 4/08. Go ahead, place your order now. We will ship it immediately, the very same day we receive it from Korg.

Got a call from my Sweetwater sales engineer. Looks like the MR-1000 shipments are getting
pushed out to an unknown date.

Oh well, gives us a bit more time to soak in the MR-1 reviews. Anyone here that planned
to get an MR-1000 daunted by the MR-1 reviews (noisey dsd->24bit, long dsd>pcm conversion
times, etc) I've been considering an oade modded R4 instead, but I want to hear more
MR-1 reviews first.