"Alan Rutlidge iinet.net.au" rutlidge@NO_SPAM wrote in message
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The Shure A96F Line Matching Transformer
( http://www.shure.com/pdf/userguides/...ories/a96f.pdf ) should
work okay.
Setting the A96F to the 150 ohm option will give you the largest voltage
increase...Depending on the wiring of the microphone input socket on the
R1, you may
need to cut the wire in the tip / ring / sleeve jack plug as shown in the
diagram on page 2 of the pdf guide in the link above.

I found a buddy handy with a soldering iron, and we made the change, as per
http://www.shure.com/pdf/userguides/...ories/a96f.pdf over to an
output for 150 ohms (or is it OF 150 ohms; not sure of the correct
terminology).

AND IT WORKED!!!!!!! My mike level is perfectly fine now going into the
Edirol R-1, and just why the #$%^&* Shure Transformer comes out of the box
set to some exotic mid-impedance level like 600 rather than a normal low
impedance level of 150, and just why the #$%^&* so-and-sos at Shure didn't
add an external switch to effect the impedance change rather than burying it
as a solder job I'll NEVER know.

But thank you, thank you, thank you. I was watching $1200 go down the drain
in recent days and not feeling too happy about it. Really appreciated.

Cheers,

Charles