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Originally Posted by macc  You can do it for me if you like 
Thanks for this, Matt. |
well if you can play the session back in Pro Tools you won't have to do a thing... Maybe I was a bit presumptuous to assume that everyone had a Pro Tools rig these days. I can provide the level differences for each file if that helps you peeps without PT's?
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Originally Posted by GYang I think the winner is Forssell thumbsup |
Great! & which converter file do you perceive that is in this blind test? C'mon put your money where your mouth is.
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Originally Posted by William Bowden God, I'm still at work, Matt why do you have to set homework all the time? |
I'm still tinkering away on a few last minute jobs as well. One of the downsides to having the studio on the same property as your house
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Will try to listen at some point, it was interesting hearing Fred's unit the other night.
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Yes although I still contest that listening session was pretty flawed (different calibration levels & the AD not running as master clock). I'm pretty pedantic about these things as it's too easy to fool yourself if the levels are slightly off &/or the clocking isn't optimal. I was maybe thinking that the Lavry faired better than usual with the Prism acting as master clock, but then this in itself will raise some eyebrows I'm sure. I don't believe that any well designed A/D converter would benefit from external clocking but at least you still got to hear some idea of how the Forssell sounds
Also I find that an hour or so of listening isn't going to tell you too much. You need to run a set of converters in your chain for a while & compare your regular converter's DA & AD capture (on a real job!) to the new set to really appreciate the differences. The other thing is that when you're so used to hearing something a certain way (like I was with the Lavry AD12296-MkIII) it's hard not to subconsciously make that your 'true' point of reference when listening to a new converter. Its easy to pick up the bigger differences but it certainly took me sometime & some regular A/B'ing in unattended sessions on jobs to appreciate all the subtle differences between them.
Matt