| Title: | * * Computer Music, MIDI, and Related Topics * * |
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| Created: | Thu Feb 20 1986 |
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I saw a new 4-track cassette recorder from Fostex in a shop
last week called Fostex 260. It looked much like the 450
mixer cut in two and with a tape deck mounted inside. Does
anybody have any experience with this unit? The price seemed
quite resonable at about $1000. (European price). I guess
this is the answer from Fostex to the TASCAM 246, but at half
the price. Any inputs?
Svein
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| 272.1 | 1000 > 1/2 * 1150 | ERLANG::FEHSKENS | Thu Mar 13 1986 17:14 | 7 | |
You can get a 246 stateside for about $1150. $1000 is lot more
than half that. The 246 includes a 6 into 4 board and all the
necessary routing. Don't know anything about the Fostex, but the
246 is a tough act to follow.
len.
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| 272.2 | Price is close to half for europe. | BEAGLE::MULELID | Mon Mar 17 1986 04:34 | 17 | |
Well that is stateside, in France the cheapest I have seen the TASCAM
246 is at 12500 FF, while the FOSTEX 260 was 7400 FF. So that should
be closer to half price than the US price. But then I guess the
260 will have a different price over there as well.
My problem here is that even if I see something like this in a shop
I dont speak the local language good enough to be able to talk
about the data and quality of a product.
As I mentioned it looks like the FOSTEX 450 mixer, with the same
bar graph meters. It has got 6 inputs (two line), and records four
track at the same time. It also have two aux sends. Speed is double
and it uses Dolby C.
This is what I have been able to find out about it from the shop,
but about quality and so on I dont know.
Svein.
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