On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 12:01:48 -0700, Sonnova
<sonnova@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> I suspect the H2 is every bit as bad as the H4.
>
>Not according to the O'Reilly review.
The O'Reilly review is totally non-technical in nature. No bench
testing is done at all. Can you point me to someone who actually has
bench tested this unit?
>The O'Reilly review seems to be pretty authoritative. After all, he has
>tested ALL of these solid-state recorders under real recording situations
>INCLUDING the Edirol.
Authoritative, but not quantitative.
It's like people who say "I really like the SOUND of that recorder".
the point is a recorder should not SOUND like anything, just duplicate
what comes in perfectly. The O'Reilly review does nothing to confirm
the recorder does that. he just says how much he likes the way it
sounds.
He only quotes the Samson party line as saying they fixed the power
supply noise. he doesn't verify that they are telling the truth by
bench testing:
Samson, Zoom's US distributor, replies, "The 700Hz pulsing is caused
by the DC-DC converter when the H4 is working by battery. While this
is not a 'mystery' per se, our engineers have only been able to
duplicate the issue using very high gain levels [while] recording
essentially silence."]
This quote by Samson is inaccurate. the noise is also apparent with
line level input and it is not limited to 700Hz. It seems
questionable that Samson fixed the problem. They can't even describe
the problem that was documented.
>Can you point me to such an Edirol review?
I would if I could but I had a hard enough time re-finding this
review. there was another H4 review that also showed the exact same
problems on the bench I wanted to show you too.
Julian
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