On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 00:16:30 GMT, "Scott Chapin" <rschapin@attbi.com> wrote:

>"Neuman - Ruether" <d_ruether@hotmail.com> wrote in message

>news:3e7be959.3845574@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu...

>> This "hiss" thing has been "debunked" numerous times - the

>> VX2000 is no noisier than other camcorders at its level.

>> It is best to write from personal experience (as I have

>> with www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/sony_dcr-vx2000.htm, based

>> now on three samples of the VX2000), rather than from

>> second/third/fourth-hand rumors (which die hard, as we've

>> seen, unless people stop repeating them...).

>Perhaps. All I know is that I was afforded the opportunity to monitor the

>VX2000 that a friend has, and in a quiet room, all I heard was

>HHHHIIIIIIISSSSSSSSS. When I monitor my AT-4033s through my Mackie mixer, I

>hear absolutely nothing. Now I need to monitor the PD150, cause maybe it

>hisses too!

Read what I have to say about it, at:

www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/sony_dcr-vx2000.htm - the

issue of S/N is more complex than just listening to

the audio output (Was the input properly loaded?

Was the monitoring done through the line outs and

not the headphone amp? Was the monitoring system set

at a realistic level? Were you hearing the "room

sound" rather than system noise? Etc...). As I point

out in the review, I can make the noise level of

the VX2000 sound horrendous - but in "real-world"

use, it is quiet (not as quiet as the medium would

permit, but quiet enough for most uses, and as quiet

as most other camcorders at its level...). Be sure

you are not doing the audio equivalent of putting a

Rolls Royce up on blocks in a small garage, revving

the engine to 6000 rpm with its doors and hood open,

and deciding it isn't as quiet as it ought to be.

Take it for a drive, then judge...;-)