Akai DR4-VR or Fostex D80/90 ?

[Croline]

hello

i was going to buy an Akai DR4D until i found out about Fostex D80/90 having
8 tracks for the same price.

i have an offer for a DR4-VR with the midi card and the internal 540mb HD
for 400 euros. (i dropped the price from 450 to 400. i still think it's
expensive but that's the price in france).

now i see i can have a 8 track DTD Fostex D80 or D90 for the SAME price. it
has :
- 8 RCA in / 8 RCA out (i would have prefered balanced jack)
- D80: 850 Meg hard drive standard. (approx. 18 min. record time.)
- D90: 2.5 Gig hard drive standard. (approx. 60 min. record time.)
- D80: 18 bit, 64Xoversampling, Dig-to-analog converters.
- D90: 20 bit, 128xoversampling,
- D80: 44.1 kHz sampling rate only.
- D90: 44.1 and 48 kHz sampling rates selectable.

are the fostex's AD good ? as good as the DR4-VR one ?
i guess the fostex don't have virtual tracks ?
what is good/bad with those machines ? (if i'd get one i'd probably get the
D90)

(i don't consider buying a DR8 because it's more expensive)

thanks again

matthieu

[David Morley]

In article >,
"Croline" > wrote:

> hello
>
> i was going to buy an Akai DR4D until i found out about Fostex D80/90 having
> 8 tracks for the same price.
>
> i have an offer for a DR4-VR with the midi card and the internal 540mb HD
> for 400 euros. (i dropped the price from 450 to 400. i still think it's
> expensive but that's the price in france).
>
> now i see i can have a 8 track DTD Fostex D80 or D90 for the SAME price. it
> has :
> - 8 RCA in / 8 RCA out (i would have prefered balanced jack)
> - D80: 850 Meg hard drive standard. (approx. 18 min. record time.)
> - D90: 2.5 Gig hard drive standard. (approx. 60 min. record time.)
> - D80: 18 bit, 64Xoversampling, Dig-to-analog converters.
> - D90: 20 bit, 128xoversampling,
> - D80: 44.1 kHz sampling rate only.
> - D90: 44.1 and 48 kHz sampling rates selectable.
>
> are the fostex's AD good ? as good as the DR4-VR one ?
> i guess the fostex don't have virtual tracks ?
> what is good/bad with those machines ? (if i'd get one i'd probably get the
> D90)
>
> (i don't consider buying a DR8 because it's more expensive)
>
> thanks again
>
> matthieu
>
>

You can get akai dr8´s for about 400-500 euros these days.
I think the Fostex will sound fine
The DR4 sounds a bit expensive to me.
Thanks
David