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JMWS · 21st March 2006

I´ve been testing Liquid Channel for couple of weeks now and I´m starting to wonder if something strange is going on?

If I´m using only the preamp replicas (compressor and EQ off), the sound difference is very very little between them, almost none.

And even weirder thing, when I´m A/B testing the Liquids preamp against my Emu 1820M soundcards own preamps, they are sounding almost the same ---> both very musty/weak/demolike.

Also the Liquids compressor replicas are quite boring. Not much noticiable difference between them. Almost like 40 same compressors.

I don´t have so much personal experience on the "real" high end preamps and compressors yet, so I don´t have any reference. So maybe I´m judging too fast?
I mean should the preamp on Liquid sound better than Emu 1820Ms preamps?

How big is the difference "normally", if high end stuff like Chandler, Pendulum and so on... is compared to soundcard/low budjet mixer preamps?

So I´m wondering here, what the hell is going on? Am I doing something wrong or can this piece of equipment be considered HIGH END???

21st March 2006	#1
JMWS Gear maniac Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 293 Thread Starter	Liquid Channel high end? I´ve been testing Liquid Channel for couple of weeks now and I´m starting to wonder if something strange is going on? If I´m using only the preamp replicas (compressor and EQ off), the sound difference is very very little between them, almost none. And even weirder thing, when I´m A/B testing the Liquids preamp against my Emu 1820M soundcards own preamps, they are sounding almost the same ---> both very musty/weak/demolike. Also the Liquids compressor replicas are quite boring. Not much noticiable difference between them. Almost like 40 same compressors. I don´t have so much personal experience on the "real" high end preamps and compressors yet, so I don´t have any reference. So maybe I´m judging too fast? I mean should the preamp on Liquid sound better than Emu 1820Ms preamps? How big is the difference "normally", if high end stuff like Chandler, Pendulum and so on... is compared to soundcard/low budjet mixer preamps? So I´m wondering here, what the hell is going on? Am I doing something wrong or can this piece of equipment be considered HIGH END???