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Originally Posted by Hammyham  I have posted two clips of a 96I/O and a Signature Series 002 using a U87 thru a Mackie Onyx mullted at the patchbay. Thus making is a "true" A/B test. If your not able to locate the clips I can email them to you if interested. |
Thanks again man, I have found them and put them into my DAW. It´s a nice test setup but could be even better. This setup is the 96io vs the 002 modded, so it does not really say much about what the mod improved or not, and on top of it it is mp3 files. Anyways, I enjoyed it. First thing to do: the modded file was about 0.2dB louder in RMS. After adjusting that and blind testing myself in several loop positions across the file I came across about 70% of loops where I could not blindly pick one system consistently. On the other 30% of loops I set up I could consistently pick out one or the other. In those cases the BLA file sounded slightly more "open" and clear. Slightly. Interesting. But the difference was in no case close to the enthusiastic reports I can read here. But it makes me more curious to do hear more of such A/B tests, especially on full bandwidth material with fast transients and in WAV or AIF format!
Anyone?
Rock on!
Pat
ps - totally looking forward to the OTB summing comparison, makes total sense!!! If BLA improves DA then there must be an audible difference in the pre summing stage and if it improves AD then the summed mix will sound better from that stage too as the mix is printed back into the DAW through the AD. Thanks!