Terry I didn't mean to stir the pot about your Yammie AW16G HD Recorder. In fact I wasn't even sure which one you had when you did the A/B comparison until you spilled the beans in a later post. Let me say that the AW16G is one of the highest rated HD Recorders on the market Terry. And it is hardly obsolete. It may have been that you didn't have the AW16G set up optimally when you recorded your demo. Sometimes just enabling this/disabling that or tweaking this/tweaking that could have made a world of difference. Also the AW16G is probably the best bang for the buck HD Recorder on the market right now. And you may find spending 3x as much for the Tascam may not produce even 1x as much improvement (if indeed any at all) in your final Mastering results.

That is just a word of caution. (Excuse me for sounding like a sibling ). If you have money to burn which apparently you don't from your previous post you may want to put that Tascam to the test under "serious" scrutiny under all kinds of conditions before you give it your final nod of okay.

PS: I hope you have a 30 day return guarantee too. You may need to use it in the end. If it works out and passes your meticulous standards of excellence then great. But just keep that receipt handy just in case.

Best regards,
Mike