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Originally Posted by Silver Sonya  Is authenticity really that important? It's 2009. Is a listener going to call you on it? "Wait, is that a real or convolution 224?..."
Come on, the only thing that matters is your ears and whether or not you like it! Sometimes the GS nerd thing goes too far!
Use it in your music or your circumstance. If you like it, keep it. If you don't like it, try something else. These exacting A/B tests are dorky.
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Hi Silver Sonya,
we had quite a few of our users who were very interested in how close the IRs are sounding to the hardware. Many expressed their interest after purchasing the item so I would regard the "need to know" as interest rather than insecurity or nerdy.
Owners of the real hardware are very interested in the proximity of the IRs which is very understandable. We have had several, who, after purchasing our libraries, have retired their hardware completely and even taken the time to write us about it.
I can fully comprehend why an EMT or Lexicon user would want to know whether the product which they are about to acquire, for replacement issues is actually capable of fully replacing their beloved machine.
Besides, knowing that the blind test was very hard to call will rid many of the doubt.
The EMTs and the older Lexicons are simply put; the best algorithmic reverberators ever produced. Maybe not the most powerful, but the best sounding. And who cares about how big a processor a nowadays reverb has, if it doesn't sound as good as the reverbs of "yesterday".