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Originally Posted by Gear Tramp  FYI, I've opened the 002 before and after the modification.
Now run along. I think it's past your bedtime. tutt |
I wish you wouldn't hijack my thread for the purpose of outright flaming, but there is the beginning of a point here.
Peeder stated that the internet is the "antidote" for a certain type of business practice, yet there is no way Black Lion or any similar modding enterprise (Stephen Sank for example) could exist without the internet. Companies like Lavry Engineering would be able to offer no competition whatsoever to Apogee or Digidesign, and Digidesign would likely own the entire market for converters (instead of 90% or whatever it is they own presently.)
As far as Black Lion is concerned, I see no technical reason why replacing cheap, crappy op-amps in a converter (or ANY piece of audio equipment for that matter) with better ones would not make a noticeable improvement in audio quality. This seems more like common sense than hype. If anyone has an informed argument against that then I think we deserve to hear it.
As far as word clock issues go, that horse has been beaten to death, then beaten back to life, then back unto death again before being ground into a fine powder and used as fertilizer for a cow pasture.
The hype about trying to "fix" your crappy clock with an external one did not originate with Black Lion, but with a far more prominent digital audio company whose marketing literature was thoroughly debunked by one of their competitors.
So yeah, this vitriol is somewhat justified but also misdirected. The big guys are waaay more talented at cramming snake oil down our throats than the little guys.