Sadly, finding something that sounds good is the easy part these days. Any decent handheld solid state digital recorder will sound better than even the Studer. The beauty of these old recorders is their refined mechanical quality, and the look and feel that comes with that. It is for the same nostalgic reason that I have not yet sold my LP12 turntable with its classically beautiful SME arm, or my old analogue Nikons.
The SME III w/ slightly S-shaped super light titanium nitride wand is just beautiful, also the finest pivot arm for the most compliant cartridges ever produced, from the Golden Age of Vinyl. Period.
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