[Peter Larsen[_3_]]

Mike Rivers wrote:

On 2/2/2011 9:29 AM, Peter Larsen wrote:

I'm looking for a replacement for my MR8HD for the "small kit".
Local gear pusher suggested Zoom R16. I kinda like it and I kinda
worry that it is likely to also lack roadworthyness

So at that price, buy two. That's probably still less than
you paid for your Fostex (if that's the MR8HD you're talking
about) unless you didn't buy it new. Besides, what's to be
less roadworthy? It's smaller, lighter, doesn't have a hard
drive. I'd be more concerned with how big of a pain it is to
operate.

Just got a full refund at the gearpusher for the Zoom R16, headphone output
limited in a way that is good for a 14 year old using it a basement toy, but
not good for live location recording, I would have had to get a headphone
amp, ie. one more box with one more wallwart. I could'ave lived with its
fiddlyness if sound had been better than the MR8HD, but at a rapid evening
test with talking into a mic it wasn't and the rendition of space around the
voice was too limited.

That is just my opinion at a rapid test and not a full A-B test, and the
showstopper was the headphone output level, it had taken impressively good
sound quality for it to overcome that, equal to the MR8HD had not been
enough.

The chamber music guys I record like the Fostex MR8HD stuff for a rapid
location recording, I don't think they would be equally happy with the sound
of the Zoom R16. So what I will do is to first check repairability of the
broken MR8HD or get a new and try not to kill it.


Kind regards

Peter Larsen