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Old 5th February 2008   #13
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Originally Posted by HockeyMike View Post
I could probably find a lot more that would never think of clipping their converters. What's supposed to be the advantage of converter clipping vs. limiting?

(And I'm pretty sure Gastwirt ain't using no FF800...)
I really doubt you could. The advantage of clipping a good converter vs limiting is that it just sounds better/more transparent most of the time. Try getting like 4-5db of gain reduction via an L2 sometime, and then that much with a top of the line converter.

And yes, Joe Gastwirt certainly ain't using a FF800 (Pacific Microsonics model 2). But I do it all the time with my Lynx Aurora, and it works beautifully.
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