Yep thought that would happen, people have asked why use a DAT for
recording when I have a Zoom H1, Olympus and so on?
Well put simply, there's nothing quite like a good recorder to have
about the place particularly for those times when you're recording Short
Wave radio broadcasts and you want noise and interference kept to an
absolute minimum.
The Tascam generates very little noise and interference whereas the
portable recorders do tend to generate some and that's fair enough given
the fact that devices are pretty much self contained computers.
Would I buy a DAT recorder now? Well no I wouldn't unless you have a
good stock of Dat cassettes or you know where you can purchase a good
stock, DAT cassettes are no longer manufactured and neither are the
recorders so you'd have to look for one on the second-hand market
through eBay, your local hi-fi specialist store and so on.
On 1/08/2015 12:42 PM, Hamit Campos wrote:
Super epic dude! Way too cool.
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Trethowan
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Yep, understand completely and have fun <smile>
The Zoom H1 of course supports these standards along with the new Sound Device
I bought for my Windows/Mac machines which I outlined some time ago.
The Rotel DAC I use in my Den system supports these high sampling rates along
with the Denon AVR-2113 in the lounge etc so thankfully 192K/24 is very much
the standard thing now.
As for the DAT recorder? I still have two, the Tascam is a truly excellent
recorder though transport is slow.
The Sony records well but the in-built DAC'S for that machine are nothing short
of terrible so best to play it through an external DAC.
On 1/08/2015 12:31 PM, Hamit Campos wrote:
Very interesting. Also dependes how small they can make these things. The audio
dudes didn't bring that up did they. Every one is too use to having thousand
thousands of tunes on their phone always right at hand. I think this will be
another audio geek product. Geeks like me. All though they never spoke of what
sample rate and bit deapth these things will go to. You know me, PCM 96 KHZ 24
Bit please. Or hell step it up and go 192 KHZ. Yep, I'm an HD guy. No more CD
or DVD audio for me thanks. Don't get me wrong, it's cool and I use it cause
that's all my DM 420 can take. But once I get an LS 14 at the very least bie
bie DVD audio for good. Ahahahaha! Since this on list, any 1 here that has an
LS 14 or the epic LS 100. Please explain if they did in the manual, what's the
magic sause in their WAV files? I ask because apparently they can play PCM 96
KHZ 24 bit but only and only those WAV files made on the recorder it self. But
why? What's so special about theirs? That's just silliness from Olympus if you
ask me. That should have been some kind of prank. It totally comes off that way
too. Oh you can play HD audio on these things alright, but haha, only owr
files. Gotcha! Ahahahahaha! It's just like only the more expensive DMs being
able to do CD and DVD audio. Thankfully with the DM4 and 2 they cut that
nonsence out.
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Subject: Will DAT Become the Next Household Name? - NYTimes.com
Ah, what memories.
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/02/business/will-dat-become-the-next-household-name.html
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