HD Native / HD Omni versus 003R

[chrisdee]

Originally Posted by drumster

When I spoke with my dealer earlier today, he said that he hadn't heard many reports of the Omni having a noisy fan

Ofcourse your dealer will say that. He wants you to buy it so he can earn money. My dealer tried to tell me this also, untill we fired up their demo unit in the store. Noisy as a server rack in a machine room. I came back after two hours and it was still as noisy.

Reading here it seems like most units has this problem untill they do the firmware update.

The deal braker question for me is if its scilent enough to track beside it.
From what iv heard here its not, as noise will bleed into the recording.
So for my setup i cant se the point of getting the super quality if it will
End up recording its own room noise.

[drumster]

Originally Posted by chrisdee

Ofcourse your dealer will say that. He wants you to buy it so he can earn money. My dealer tried to tell me this also, untill we fired up their demo unit in the store. Noisy as a server rack in a machine room. I came back after two hours and it was still as noisy.

Reading here it seems like most units has this problem untill they do the firmware update.

The deal braker question for me is if its scilent enough to track beside it.
From what iv heard here its not, as noise will bleed into the recording.
So for my setup i cant se the point of getting the super quality if it will
End up recording its own room noise.

Thanks for the input. I think you and I are on exactly the same page with this. No matter how good the conversion quality is, that kind of noise simply won't work in a small control room. It also defeats the purpose of the Omni functioning as a monitor controller within arms reach. Hopefully, Avid will come up with a solution because I think alot of prospective buyers such as us are becoming gun shy of buying this unit.

[chrisdee]

Originally Posted by drumster

Hopefully, Avid will come up with a solution because I think alot of prospective buyers such as us are becoming gun shy of buying this unit.

Agree.