Your
ears will tell you if there's any difference.
I could only stomach a couple pages of this thread. I fully appreciate the charts and graphs, and I have the highest respect for the scientific method -- I minored in astronomy. A few years back I spent a lot of time with the nulls and the pan laws and the intense staring at wave forms and the constant out-of-context comparisons.
But if I use Box X and it makes my music sound noticeably better, even if the entire scientific community all over the Alpha Quadrant of the Milky Way simultaneously jumps up and down proclaiming it's impossible, I'm still going to trust my ears. It took me years to learn that lesson.
Samplitude is now my app of choice. It ain't perfect, but from the second I gave it a try I've liked it better than anything I've used before -- and Good God Magnum it sounds better to me.
DAWs are a personal thing, but Samp 10 is what I wanted Reaper to be -- just as inventive, just as smart -- though in a mature version, and past all the growing pains Reaper's experiencing now. It's not bug-free, and it's definitely for adults, but my mixes are coming together faster now, and sounding better than they ever have before.
Yay.
Cheers all.
