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numberforty1 · 4th January 2009

I'm running an AT4033 through a RNP into Mbox1 inserts, and I'm getting pretty much the same quality that I got in the studio with a Neumann U87 into an Avalon pre and Apogee converter. I was thinking of getting a separate and hopefully better converter than that in the Mbox1, but it seems to me that it would hardly make a difference, given the minimal difference in results from these two chains. Yes there is a difference, but it is one of kind rather than degree of quality. I have a good ear for recording, and I'm monitoring through good audiophile phones too.

Anyone using the same equipment want to convince me that a better converter would still be worth getting? The biggest pain about it seems to be that using the s/pdif on the Mbox would give me no way to monitor what I was recording, which seems to make it useless in the first place...

4th January 2009	#1
numberforty1 Gear maniac Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 258 Thread Starter	Simple setup sounds as good as high-end stuff to me... I'm running an AT4033 through a RNP into Mbox1 inserts, and I'm getting pretty much the same quality that I got in the studio with a Neumann U87 into an Avalon pre and Apogee converter. I was thinking of getting a separate and hopefully better converter than that in the Mbox1, but it seems to me that it would hardly make a difference, given the minimal difference in results from these two chains. Yes there is a difference, but it is one of kind rather than degree of quality. I have a good ear for recording, and I'm monitoring through good audiophile phones too. Anyone using the same equipment want to convince me that a better converter would still be worth getting? The biggest pain about it seems to be that using the s/pdif on the Mbox would give me no way to monitor what I was recording, which seems to make it useless in the first place...