Martin Lonek

Yes. It is great the SD is doing fine. And despite the high prices of their new products, they keep going ! There is a big user base of SD here in Europe, their european service center in UK works great, although it would be great to see them adding another one in some EU member country, since logistics worsened significantly after Brexit.

I think BM´s philosophy is miles away from Aaton Cantar universe. Can´t imagine how inserting cantar lineup could help their image.... Definitely !

Yes, I opologize I forgot to say what you did - that I´m also sad to see Aaton Cantar go, eventhough I was not a personal fan of the machines they made, for the reasons I depicted. I´m also sad and angry to see Sound devices going away from theit orginal goal - to integrate other vendors wireless into their recorder ecosystem. Sad to see them stop making great A10-Rack. Sad to see their SL2 is only a poorer child compared to great SL6. I have a strong feeling that someone else should enter the business of top sound recorders, be it TASCAM, FOSTEX, ZOOM...

I completely agree ! The very limited market of high end professional sound recorders gives most opportunities to someone who´s already big in prosumer and lower professional grade recorders. ZOOM stays closest from making a great high grade professional recorder. They only need to change the ergononics a bit and introduce some connectivity update (as Superslot, Dante or Madi support. Just an opinion, though.

I understand your feelings. Your feedback is appreciated.

In general, it is very strange to see that much lack of competition. Making an audio recorder and it´s UI is not an atomic science. I don´t prefer the anatomy of cantar recorders at all - it makes even easy operations tricky. Boot times terrible. Input functions limited. Unbearably heavy. Lack of MixAssist / Dugan until the last minute, Lack of SuperSlot. Stiff onboard mixer faders (great cantaress, though). A need to buy an external box to have physical gain knobs. Buttons don´t work when dust gets in. There´s too much stress on set to operate such an absurdly complex piece of equipment on top of it. It´s not doing anything else than recording an audio signal and timecode ! Cantar only worked mentally in some absurd way : once you forced that thing to operate the way you wanted, you got honored with that spurious "atomic scientist pride". But that didn´t win a nobel prize for you. That´s where the audio mixer job only begins. SD, ZOOM and even ZAXCOM make much more straightforward equipment. Yes, I don´t love the overheating Scorpio that´s less durable and flawless compared to 6XX/7XX line but it seems like it´s the best new piece of equipment out there recently. My secret horse is ZOOM Japan. They´re a hair away of making something big. Add Dante support, double the channel count , make bigger mixing surface with same brains as great F - Control. You will rule this market. RIP Aaton. You were not my love but you have my respect.

Hi Olle, sorry and thank you for the note. I corrected that 🙂

Hi all, found a new great deity theos test, including signal analysis and a walk test in a cold russian city. Unfortunately, only in russian language.

Hi everyone, just found a first real life range test of THEOS. It seems to work great using whips only. Thank you NORDIC AUDIO for testing ! It is in danish (thank you Olle), but the message seems to be straighforward enough to everyone. The range test itself starts @ 2m:55sec. I counted 130 footsteps until he turns around, that would be around 100 meters of range. Plus, there doesn´t seem to be a lot of possibilities for the signal reflections that would help the overal result. Any links to other tests are highly appreciated.

This is a great low budget solution. Connecting the direct outs of the 552 to inputs 7-12 of the 664 makes this a great 12- input full fader control setup.

Hi Codyman, that is exactly my thinking. Obviously, they do it on a purpose: to keep sound pros/recordists in higher margin market. If I was a cinematographer with good audio skills, why bother hiring a sound engineer when I can have a low priced system with so much ease of use - no gain staging, e.t.c. that will do the job ?

Hi Rasmus, there are few things that have not been beaten yet by anyone else - Sennheiser´s SK 6212 tx which is still among the three smallest txs on the planet, but it delivers more than 13 hours of battery life at the same time. That is what i need for the type of shows I´m doing - not to disturb a talent. Otherwise, I completely agree with you that there are "no features" other than a sound quality of D6000. Also, the battery life measurement of SK 6000 and SK 6212 on a EK 6042 receiver is amazingly accurate. It is never wrong. Also, the audio quality is still TOP together with Shure Axient and Audio Ltd/SD digital wireless. So far. Wonder what comes next.

Hi Michael, same as some other guys here, I recommend to wait until others raise more experience with this one. I´m also awaiting more real life THEOS experience as it should come out very soon. There have been lot of suggestions and expectations recently but not enough yet to make a buying decision.

Hi PMC, Im using a powerbank to get more power for my CL-12. A slim 10Ah unit will serve you for multiple days. I had no problem using it with my 664 before, you only need to know that 664 doesn´t support EQ section of CL-12. Not a big deal. Yes, CL-12 is like a holy grail nowadays, almost impossible to buy. Units on ebay are sold for almost double the price it costed new. Thank you Jeremy ! This is what i needed to know.

Keep in mind the interference is still an issue with all the SK 5212 / SK 5212 II units. They simply don´t use low pass filters at all and the filter can´t be added. Wisycom was adding a low pass filters @ 20kHz/17kHz, respectively to their MTP 40/41 range later, not Sennheiser. For me, only upgrading my TXs to digital 6000/9000 resolved this on sets where that monster (Cinetape) operates.