umm... this thing is bananas.

http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2004/10/i-dont-care-what-it-does-i-want-it.html

It is nice, but is it really worth $15,000? I can buy a new car for that.

It looks awesome and is quite a bit smaller than the 50 pound with case alesis hard drives we use!

A new car for 15K$? I'll take the recorder.

Some sound guys on features make like $200k/yr, so they do have $15k to spend on a recorder like that.

Right, and often these system become available for rental so you can try it out before using it. I think it would be cool for smaller more intimate music recording also. Some times the bigger rigs dominate the space and take away from that front porch feeling!

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