If Yamaha makes a CD or DVD player, I'd go with them. I've been very impressed with anything musical or sound related from the Yamaha engineers. I've had Yamaha reference headphones that I considered better than my Sennheiser headphones, and the Yamaha MG 10/2 mixing console I have now ($100 USD) is working very well.
Someone before mentioned recording with microphones. I thought they wanted a protable solution, so I didn't respond. But now that I think about it, the MG 10/2 does have an optional mic stand attachment so you can mount in on a mic stand and take it with you. The MG 10/2 can supply phantom power for condenser microphones, has 2 mono channels with XLR or phono inputs, and 2 stereo channels with XLR or phono inputs. I don't have a stereo mic, so I haven't checked out the stereo capabilities of those 2 channels, but you could certainly use 2 more mono mics for a total of 4 mono mics with trim control and phantom power. There are ST Out (L, R) impedance-balanced phone-type output jacks which I run to the power amplifier for the reference monitor speakers. There are C-R Out (L, R) impedance-balanced phone-type output jacks which I run to the Line-In on the computer sound card for recording the output from the mixer. A headphone output jack is also included. The sound card/computer Line-Out is run directly to the mixer. Thus you can have your computer playing something, be using up to 4 microphones, and route all that output from the mixer back to the computer for recording (assuming you have a full-duplex sound card). Do you need more than that? Well if so, there are Send and Return jacks for using outboard sound effects processors, 3 band equalizer on every channel, and knobs instead of sliders for control. Yamaha gives you a lot of capability/performance for very few dollars. I guess that's what happens when you're the "new" kid on the block. Regards, "The Other" Stephen Stubbs Champaign, IL USA On Saturday 10 February 2007 8:19 am, Edward Martin wrote: > For choices of a CD player, my old Sony went on the brink, and I > bought a Sony DVD player that I now use instead of a CD player. It > actually sounds much clearer than the CD player. > > One more thought on the use of gut.... many state that in > performance, anyone beyond the 4th or 5th row cannot tell the > difference in the sound produced by string material, gut vs. > synthetics. That may, or may not be the case. However, I can tell > the difference when performing, and that is what matters... I > always want to give it my best shot, & that is with the best > sounding string. > > ed To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
