Neil Gould wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:
hank alrich wrote:
Neil Gould wrote:
Mike Rivers wrote:
On 4/29/2013 10:49 AM, Neil Gould wrote:
Even '70s era hobbiests who bought an 8-track Tascam recorder&
mixer spent multiples of the cost of today's DAW/interface
hardware.
That's true. I had $3700 in a TASCAM Model 5 mixer and 80-8
recorder, and I think close to another grand in the companion dbx
noise reduction unit for it.
Let's not overlook that those were in '70s dollars, too. I bought a
new Porsche back then for under $10k. ;-)
The A80 cost a lot in the mid-1970's, but it also gave nearly thirty
years of service with very little additional cost.
Which is a lot more than you can say for a Porsche.
There may be some conceptual relationship between those that expect decades
of service from inexpensive audio interfaces and those that think a Porsche
is practical for basic transportation. ;-)
I now have over ten years fo service from a MHL MIO that started out as
a 2882+DSP, and is now a 2882 2d. The company treis to offer
"future-proof" products to the best of its ability, and they're been
doing a very good job.
I think of it as my new Studer. g
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