[Neil Gould]

Trevor wrote:
"Mike Rivers" wrote in message
And if you aren't interested in betting on the future, then like me,
stay in the pasture for another generation of equipment.

Right, don't need to upgrade mine at the moment anyway. But the
problem never goes away, you just have to face built in obsolesence
with all computer equipment. It's been that way since my first in
1980 and will probably be that way long after I'm dead.

IMO, we've lost perspective. What one paid in the 70's for an 8-channel
recorder with audio quality equal to today's DAW/interface combinations
would buy generations of complete system replacements into the foreseable
future. In the '60s an 8-channel mixer was extremely rare; I don't recall
seeing one in any studio I worked. The barrier to entry into pro-level audio
recording is no longer set by the cost of the recording equipment.
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best regards,

Neil