Just a comment about the file-saving "bug": It seems to me that this wouldn't necessarily be fixable via firmware update. I still don't recommend it to people at least until the promised but undelivered firmware update to fix the bugs is released. Thing barely sips any gas - I've run 8 festival sets about 14 hours total on a half charged 20100 mAh battery and it still has plenty of juice left in it. I've been running a backup PMD620 out of the line out in case I have any problems but ever since I've been using the backup deck I haven't had any problems at all. Still waiting after many months for an update to fix the known bugs - mostly revolving around file saving - with nothing yet from Marantz. small bar - used more features than before - ran mics + SBD, put a delay on the board feed and set the line out to send the matrix to a patcher, sent the sbd feed to the camera out for my vid cam, everything worked as planned, no hiccups at all. My MBHOs seem to pair better than my MK41s. Like any preamp certain mics pair with it better. I've used it for several live music recordings and the recordings sound decent. The pres on the 706 don't really have any flavor (so they would be considered transparent, I guess) and are adequate (they don't overload as long as you have your gain selections where they need to be). Hope this story gets better.įor recording music I would say the preamps are comparable to the Zoom units but the DR70 has a slight edge. Worse than no hold button, another deal breaker for me at least. Until Marantz fixes this weakness, I'm not touching this deck. You'd have to stop the recording early, replace batteries, and start back up again because the risk isn't just a cut, but ending up empty handed. With this deck you can't let it roll and hope it makes it. No issues except de-stressing after the show. I have been in plenty of situations, as many here have, where batteries are low towards the end of a show, and I just kept my fingers crossed, ready to pop in backup batteries, and rode it out and made it to the end. The 661 mk1 & mk2 actually shutdown with a proper file save when internal batteries are depleted and if it's abrupt loss like pulling external power plug without batteries will still leave a file up to that point and it can be recovered. I just can't get past the no-file save on dead battery shutdown flaw so I'm holding off. However one upgraded by Doug Oade should be significantly better. Without a comp, just going by published specs I would say stock the 706 falls short of the units you mentioned.
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