You can buy two Sharp 702 units for the cost of one Sony unit. Even assuming
that one of them goes bad, in the mean time you've had the use of two very
good recorders before one goes bad. The Atrac bug is a non issue unless you
plan on recording solo french horn. I've used mine extensively for recording
many different kinds of live music, and it sounds great. I'm a music
composer and feel I have a pretty good ear.
I don't know why you have it in for Sharp, but I have two 702s and an MD-R2
deck and am very satisfied with all of them. I've already used the two 702s
to make a live recording of a school performance that will make me enough
money to pay for both portables, the deck, and years worth of minidiscs.
I think it's ridiculous that the Sony consumer decks that sell for $350-400
US (like the Sony MXD-D3) don't have digital output. I also bought a Sony
DVD deck that would not play CDR audio discs (they are deliberately designed
so that they will not play them). I exchanged it for a Pioneer (I think they
are made by Sharp) that plays everything I put in it, and has more features
for less money.
I used to really like Sony equipment, but IMO, they are overpriced and
underfeatured these days.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of PrinceGaz
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 12:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: MD: Sharp 701/702s for 99 Pounds at RS
Hi guys,
Thats true Ralph but what MD definitely does *not* need is
peeps being introduced to units like the Sharp 701/702
which will go pants due to utoc errors in 12 months time.
Add to that the allegedly buggy Sharp ATRAC coding prob
(even in the latest units) and the little extra you pay for Sony
stuff begins to make sense. C'mon guys-- Sony can throw
many times the budget and staff at improving and checking
their ATRAC algorithm than Sharp. It does surprise me that
there could be a flaw as major as incorrectly coding the MSB
in Sharps code, and that it wasn't corrected immediately but
perhaps they're all incompetent :-)
Cheers,
PrinceGaz -- "Blessed Be."
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