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I've been hearing a lot about the Sony DMX-R100. So I went and looked it up on the Sony site.
Here are some specs:
Frequency response:
Line input (LINE IN to PGM OUT) 20 Hz to 20 kHz, +/ -0.2 dB
Mic input (MIC IN to PGM OUT) 20 Hz to 20 kHz, +/- 0.3 dB
Harmonic distortion:
Line input (LINE IN to PGM OUT) 0.01 %, at + 4 dBs, 1 kHz
Mic input (MIC IN to PGM OUT) 0.06 %, at - 60 dBs, 1 kHz
Noise level:
Line input -104 dBu, 600 Ohms terminated (-80 dBm, 4 dB typical)
Mic input (E.I.N.) -126 dBu, 150 Ohms terminated
Crosstalk:
Between input and output channels 90 dB at 1 kHz
Dynamic range:
Line input (LINE IN to PGM OUT) 104 dB
I may be missing something, but most of these specs are easily bested by even a cheap analog mixer (e.g a Soundcraft, A&H, Mackie). Any decent low-end 5-10k recording console will blow this board out of the water. Truly, the best specs I saw on this board were the specs for the A/D and D/A converters, which look to be truly excellent. But this board only allows for 10-bit fader resolution, and many of the parameters for DSP offer less than 100 steps of resolution.
All this, for a mere $20,000 list!
I'm not trying to rip on Sony, I think the Oxford console is a sterling piece of work. I'm more intrigued by us (recordists/home recordists) as a group. Is it possible that as we have become more and more entranced by digital technology, we have become less and less concerned with the pureness of our audio? Is there a reason that quality of this caliber would be worth more than a Ghost, for example?
Here are some specs:
Frequency response:
Line input (LINE IN to PGM OUT) 20 Hz to 20 kHz, +/ -0.2 dB
Mic input (MIC IN to PGM OUT) 20 Hz to 20 kHz, +/- 0.3 dB
Harmonic distortion:
Line input (LINE IN to PGM OUT) 0.01 %, at + 4 dBs, 1 kHz
Mic input (MIC IN to PGM OUT) 0.06 %, at - 60 dBs, 1 kHz
Noise level:
Line input -104 dBu, 600 Ohms terminated (-80 dBm, 4 dB typical)
Mic input (E.I.N.) -126 dBu, 150 Ohms terminated
Crosstalk:
Between input and output channels 90 dB at 1 kHz
Dynamic range:
Line input (LINE IN to PGM OUT) 104 dB
I may be missing something, but most of these specs are easily bested by even a cheap analog mixer (e.g a Soundcraft, A&H, Mackie). Any decent low-end 5-10k recording console will blow this board out of the water. Truly, the best specs I saw on this board were the specs for the A/D and D/A converters, which look to be truly excellent. But this board only allows for 10-bit fader resolution, and many of the parameters for DSP offer less than 100 steps of resolution.
All this, for a mere $20,000 list!
I'm not trying to rip on Sony, I think the Oxford console is a sterling piece of work. I'm more intrigued by us (recordists/home recordists) as a group. Is it possible that as we have become more and more entranced by digital technology, we have become less and less concerned with the pureness of our audio? Is there a reason that quality of this caliber would be worth more than a Ghost, for example?
) but the given freq. response with only a deviation of 0.3 dB seems EXCELLENT. Remember that 3 dB is the least noticable difference, and we're talking 0.3 dB here!
