George (and anyone else who's interested) Yes, I'm more than happy with the 788T. I managed to find a used one for a reasonable price in extremely good condition and it has a number of advantages over all the Japanese kit that I've used before:
1) It's built like a tank. Lots of metal, recessed connectors and controls, etc. So no worries about the case cracking or knobs falling off. This was my main reason for wanting to upgrade and I don't regret it one bit. I always had the feeling that the Edirol and the Tascam were not really meant for the life that I subjected them to, even though I was incredibly careful with them. I took the 788T under Niagara Falls last week with no qualms and did a lot of other clambering around with it sitting in my back-pack, without constantly having to worry about minor knocks. 2) Incredibly versatile. Mine is the 256 GB SSD model and I have a 16 GB Compact Flash card with it and can record to both at once, with custom track assignments. (And to an external drive as well at lower sample rates) 3) M/S and B-Format monitoring built-in, with control ganging as standard. 4) Long battery life from industry standard camera batteries, plus the option of powering from an external 12v supply, so no more vast expenditure on eight AAs. 5) Excellent pre-amp quality, so no need for third party modifications. 6) Multiplicity of i/o options, both analog and digital. 7) Ability to save custom set-ups to disc or card for later recall. 8) Full of really nice little touches, like the ability to set the level of panel and control illumination, 'recording' & 'stop recording' tone in headphones, so that you know you hit the record or stop button without looking down (plus I bought the CL-WiFi remote unit which allows a degree of control from an iPhone/iPad), replaceable LCD screen protectors, and so much more. The amount of stuff packed into this tiny package is just astounding. The manual is 150-odd pages long and it takes some time to get familiar with all that's available, but I can't see myself wanting to change to something else for quite a while. But it's a pretty expensive piece of kit and I was lucky to find one at a good price and to be in the USA at the right time to pick it up. New, in the UK, with the SSD and including VAT, these units are now around £5,500.00, so you pays your money and you takes your choice, as they say. I hope that helps, Best wishes, John On 5 Aug 2011, at 08:10, George Miller wrote: > John, > have you tested the 778T yet? Are you happy with it? > Just contemplating an upgrade from an R4 and wondering if it would be worth > it to go all the way to the 778T? > Any thoughts appreciated. > Thanks > George Miller _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
