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RadoStefanov

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  1. Strange price indeed. But as I understand it is extremely reliable. Making it a desirable choice. “ I am getting my minicmit serviced and possibly will get the new capsule that is supposed to be better in humidity.” AS far as DPA goes It worked great in 100% humidity 120F in the tunnels under lake mead for many years. I would love to try it out. But when it comes to 4017/4018 vs Schoeps the schoeps is noticeably better sounding, I have been using the cardioid MK4 lately and is so much more natural sounding than mk41. Cardioid in my opinion sound better than super/hyper cardioid. Wide Cardioid sounds the most natural but not really isolating.
  2. I am dropping the mini cmit as well and getting a 4017. I love the sound but my schoeps have been very unreliable.
  3. it does matter what they charge for chargers. And batteries. they should stick to selling recorders and anything else the multinational conglomerate that owes them sales. price gouging their customers is not only shady business practice but also disrespectful to their customers. make something and sale it! don’t resale price gouge like any other shitty greedy corporation out there. I don’t understand why people always jump to deffend multi national corporations like whoever Italian mafia family owns sound devices!!! do you work for them!? are you a resaler? what do you care? are you generally defending greedy capitalist price gouging as an acceptable business practice?
  4. No not at all. I purchased bunch of batteries from Ghotam when they were sold at $120-125 each “don’t remember the exact price. Sound devices are saying it is 5050 but it should be confirmed. My 4040s have the rubber buttons as well. Just FYI the calibrator does nothing with an aging battery. It only introduces unnecessary fan noise. Sound devices should sale 4040. Not to mention BS like bellow. It is preying on their own uninformed customers… 4 times the actual retail price:
  5. t was a typo that was corrected. Those chargers are 4040 not 5050! Those companies get even better prices buying bulk. 10% is an honest mark up. Not 60-70%!!! I imagine they get $160-170 price per charger. Back in the day when Vin found IE and pointed me to them and I started purchasing for everybody. they gave me a $70,000 deal for a bulk purchase with my branding R.A.D.O . I approached a LA resaler with a reasonable offer of $10 mark up for me a battery. This was back in the day around the time Audio Root battery were coming out for $330. I was offered around $100 a battery and $165 a charger pay as I go. I wanted the batteries to be affordable for everybody. But I was cut off the deal. I am not sour. I am actually happy that lesson keeps me away from the sound business. Don’t want to live without dignity!
  6. RRC is Chinese. inspired energy is American I use to buy dual chargers for my friends for around $200
  7. This charger is made by inspired energy and around $220.
  8. It is a shame when our people take advantage of us!
  9. In my experience Any pure Digital RF is way easier to handle.
  10. I love him so much.
  11. I am trying to emulate him on Facebook but the youth gets easily triggered.
  12. He would not read this but I will make sure to get the message to him.
  13. I kept in touch. He was in bad shape health wise but recovered and looks great.
  14. A month ago I spent my day off with the great senator Mike Michaels. We had Chicken and Waffles and a great conversation. He is doing good but staying away from the internet. Which is admirable and something that I inspire to do. I snapped a photo which my Leica CL on a Kodak XX 5222 cinema B&W stock. Developed in Kodak Xtol 1:1 at 75F
  15. Now let’s talk a little more about 32 bit there are 2 different formats: 32bit floating - which is equivalent of to 24bit and true fixed 32 bit. if you do 32 bit floating point you don’t have to dither since 32 bit floating point does not have higher bit depth then 24 bit. 32bit fixed is actual 32 bit and has to be dithered down.
  16. I bet you money it does not transmit 32bit. It records it at best and it does not make any difference compared to 24bit. by the way when they say 32 bit they actually mean 25 bit. its 24 bit with one bit floating. And by the way gain forward is “all due respect” the dumbest term of all time. 🙂
  17. Not how it works. The hardware has to match 32bit which is pretty much impossible. about the 32bit: might be an advertising gimmick. 136dB dynamic range can be easily send over 24bit. And I doubt the 136dB is a realistic number. There is for sure an expander implemented. 32 bit over digital wireless sounds like insane amount of data even with the compression.
  18. Pretty sure zaxcom is always 32kHz . If you use XR. But who cares?. I would not recommend using zhd for range. Just don’t make sound for children shows. Adults can not hear over 16khz anyways. As far as noise goes I am not as concerned about it.Honestly no preamp should be noisier then the condenser mic. even $20 once. But fast transient loud peaks are handled a lot better by 74x transmitters. I believe the ZMT never clip is not “real” dual AD. It employs a compressor in order to work.
  19. I love it!!!!!!! like my condor bag. Literally everybody who makes sound bags but the sound bag manufacturers make better bags. It’s crazy. Message me close ups when you can.
  20. I feel the bag weights as much as the gear.
  21. The one above looks smaller I take it back. It is shit.
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