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sound_forward · 1st December 2005

Sorry about that 3700 Knox.

This is just from my memory 5-6 years ago. I never owned that machine.

I brought my DAT tape to mastering studio and there was a panasonic machine that played back this DAT much better than protools at that time. I think that converters were stock 888 or something. I just remeber that we discussed the sound with mastering guy and we agreed that panasonic sounded better and more "analog" than PT with 888.

But it was long ago so. ...sorry about that. My hearing memory is probably not so good.

Anyway, I still stand by my statement that some older digital machines that I use every day sound really really good. (From my experience...SP1200, PCM70, LXP1, EMU EMULATOR III etc...)

1st December 2005	#27
sound_forward Gear nut Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 135 Thread Starter	Sorry about that 3700 Knox. This is just from my memory 5-6 years ago. I never owned that machine. I brought my DAT tape to mastering studio and there was a panasonic machine that played back this DAT much better than protools at that time. I think that converters were stock 888 or something. I just remeber that we discussed the sound with mastering guy and we agreed that panasonic sounded better and more "analog" than PT with 888. But it was long ago so. ...sorry about that. My hearing memory is probably not so good. Anyway, I still stand by my statement that some older digital machines that I use every day sound really really good. (From my experience...SP1200, PCM70, LXP1, EMU EMULATOR III etc...)