SENNHEISER’S WIRELESS MASTERPIECE X MARKS THE SPOT AT SENNHEISER If you ever get a chance to check out Sennheiser’s proposed new facility it’ll be worth sneaking a shovel into your backpack. Sennheiser has celebrated beginning construction of its planned Innovation Campus at company headquarters in Wennebostel, kicking things off with a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony. The Innovation Campus, which will cost around 20 million Euros, will provide approximately 7,000 square metres of optimum, modern workspace for employees, as well as room for an events venue. For the laying of the foundation stone Dr. Andreas Sennheiser filled a ‘timecapsule’ with documents and products which symbolise the importance of Sennheiser’s innovative company
culture. The contents included a photograph of the three generations of the Sennheiser family, a current annual report, new Euro coins and a daily newspaper — fair enough. However, also included were the classic MD421 microphone, the IE800 ear canal phones and a digital handheld transmitter SKM9000 from the Digital 9000 system. And because every idea begins on a piece of blank paper, pens and paper completed the contents of the ‘time-capsule’. It seems a waste to leave it all buried there, right? You can even leave a thank-you note with the pen and paper. X marks the spot...
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Fully Digital Rock Solid RF Pure Audio No Companding NEW MASTER AT TASCAM Tascam is labeling its new DA-3000 high-definition master recorder/ ADDA converter as an upgrade of the DV-RA1000HD, although at first glance there’s a bit of a chalk-and-cheese factor. The DA-3000 has the same BurrBrown A/D converters, but has improved circuitry otherwise and a more modern design. Also, there’s no internal hard drive or CD/DVD optical drive. The DA-3000 has been squeezed down to a 1RU machine designed to fit in any size recording studio, even “replacing a DAT machine.” Replacing a <what>? Oh… right, we remember them. The recorder supports high sampling rates up to PCM 192k and DSD 5.6MHz, with the option of recording to SDHC and Compact Flash cards. Multiple
units can be linked for increased channel recording. Connections on the unit include balanced XLR I/O, unbalanced RCA I/O along with AESEBU, S/PDIF for PCM and SDIF-3/DSDraw for DSD. Tascam has also released the DR60D, an audio recording solution for filmmakers and videographers using DSLR cameras. The DR-60D is 4-track solid-state recorder with high-grade pre-amps, D/A converters and a durable but lightweight structure and shape. This device will fit easily under any camera or into any rig, and record up to 96k/24-bit high quality audio straight to SD/SDHC media. CMI Music & Audio www.cmi.com.au
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