TASCAM DV-RA1000HD - An Analog Lover's Perspective

[Marco]

Hi Leo,

Welcome to AoS

Perhaps others are putting in as much effort helping with your enquiry as you did in your Welcome thread?

Anyway, where in England are you? It's a rather large place.... The geographical location in your profile should contain the country you live in and area. Therefore, please add that information next time you log in.

Cheers!

Marco.

[pixel79]

Anyway, where in England are you? It's a rather large place.... The geographical location in your profile should contain the country you live in and area. Therefore, please add that information next time you log in.

England is not so big - travelling has shown me that. I've added more location detail as requested.

[Marco]

Nice one... Thanks for that

Marco.

[WOStantonCS100]

This is a very old, but very interesting thread. I'm thinking of modding my DV-RA1000HD by taking the hard drive out which, like everyone's has become a bit flaky with read errors - replacing it with an mSATA SSD.

Has anyone tried putting a drive in whose capacity is larger than the original?

Wow, this is an old thread, init?

You would obviously have to test that out, both the mSATA SSD and the needed converter in order to find a match that worked well with your RA1000HD. I've known folks who have put in drives much larger than 60GB (320GB?). I think I mentioned the first unit I purchased, new, came with an 80GB rather than a 60GB. I don't see why it shouldn't work. Having said that, I did have to go through different brands of CF cards and converters before I found a combination that had my desired capacity as well as desired performance. Once I did, things have got on so well that I don't think about it anymore.

It's hard to believe it's been 4 years! I've been using my modded master recorder pretty much non-stop. I've often thought about moving on to the DA-3000; but, I just can't bring myself to ditch the optical drive. More importantly, the ability to slap in a new optical drive for a few quid if one goes south is too good to pass up.

I actually purchased a used second unit as a backup. After having tested it, it is now tucked away for a rainy day.


BTW: Sorry about the broken picture links. Photobucket was and still is just a necessary evil.

Additional Note: I see that Yamaha has now put out 2 universal players that, like the Oppos, will play 24/192 .wav/.bwf files on a burned DVD: BD-S681 and BD-A1060.

Cheers!

[pixel79]

Thanks for replying and sharing your views.

Yeah they're such well-built machines. I use mine every single week. Reliable (apart from those odd disk issues) and the quality of the preamps and the audio stages overall is really very good indeed. I, too, considered getting the DA3000 but the 1000HD is so trustworthy (and the perk of the optical drive) that it's daft to get rid of something that works well.

It's a shame the USB can't be upgraded to a faster version - that's my only qualm. When you're shipping multi-gigabyte files around, this is a bit of a bottleneck.

I'm going to make it a bank holiday project to pop the lid and see if I can get a higher capacity drive installed. I shall report back.

[pixel79]

The fun begins. I have the mSATA drive, the mSATA to IDE kit and now a hurdle... Does anyone know how to actually get at the drive? I've taken this unit apart (see images below) and can't see what needs to be unscrewed next

Images on dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/sc/lovrx4u6z...0E7fKeqUAWwmza

All tips gratefully appreciated!

[pixel79]

For ease, here are some low res images but as mentioned the full res pics are on Dropbox

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