Re: [ARSCLIST] Seen at AES NYC

["Prentice, Will" <Will.Prentice@xxxxx>]

The British Library Sound Archive has had a handful of these for a
little over a year, and has been fairly happy with them. We had a small
number of failures using ATA Flash cards, but since swapping to Compact
Flash I don't think there have been any problems. Note though that
however big the storage medium is, the machine won't generate a file
greater than 4Gb.

Will 

-----Original Message-----
From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
[mailto:ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of andy kolovos
Sent: 11 October 2005 17:07
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Seen at AES NYC

Konrad Strauss wrote:
 > Did you look at the Fostex flash recorder? At a list of $1200 it 
looked like
 > a great option. With a 5 gig flash card you get 2 hours of 96k 24-bit
 > recording. It also takes the 1.8" PCMCIL hard discs.
 >
 > http://www.fostex.com/index.php?file=products/pfr/fr2
 >

I've been enthralled by this thing for a couple of years now, but 
neither we (the Vermont Folklife Center) nor I have ventured to buy one
yet.

A visitor to the field recording equipment website that I maintain 
recently emailed a comment about the unit--that it has been "plagued by 
file corruption problems." This note was the first I've heard about any 
problems with the unit, and since it came out of the blue I don't know 
what to think.

Has anyone else come across this issue?  The one review I've seen of the

FR2 was stellar.

andy



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Andy Kolovos
Archivist/Folklorist
Vermont Folklife Center
P.O. Box 442
Middlebury, VT 05753
(802) 388-4964
akolovos @ vermontfolklifecenter.org
http://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org

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