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Originally Posted by Snatchman  You are right of course. But this is what I mean "The ears are the best test equipment". Your ears, his ears, her ears. Everybody ears will hear different. If everyone ears heard exactly alike as test equipment does, basically all mixes would sound alike. Everyone would pick the same equipment ( if you could afford it) etc. And I guess everybody would have the same...... clock!....  ..( YMMV) |
And here is where I don't get things...
I want my converters to sound as close as possible to what is going into them.
You hear a lot about some sounding nicer than others or deeper or wider etc, but surely they are tools to capture what YOU send into or out of them.
The SSL I am using is fine for me. I am REALLY happy with them. I can compare to others and they all just sound different, but I think converters are to be treated like monitors. You need good ones, but more importantly you need to trust them by getting used to them and having them not colour your judgement.
Personally I don't consider them part of the "creative" tools in the studio. They should be as much of a straight line as possible.
It is certainly easy to make things sound "nice" but pure and transparent is another thing altogether.