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Originally Posted by
Will The Weirdo
I would not ignore Jim, he's got more experience than most of us will ever have in Pro Audio, just understand he's after the most pristine signal path possible, which the Harrison 32c is NOT. Different tools for different purposes for different people's needs.
I've worked on 2 different 32c's and while they have a sound of their own, I would have zero issue mixing anything on them and I'll be picking up Alex B's H32 for the tonal options it will bring to my digital work.

Jim is a legend, and for good reason. His knowledge of the electronics inside gear is second to none. Thing is, as Will said, his take on things is a pristine, clean, and efficient signal path, and one of his specialities is to modify existing pieces with the right components to achieve that, and he is an expert at doing so. He is also quite vocal about his observations and disparaging to the choices made, component wise, in many pieces he has worked on. That's all well and good, and he has my respect. Thing is, everyone is looking for different things from the gear they use, and many of the pieces i have owned and used over the years have been noisey, coloured, distorted and generally, not-too-pristine, and/or efficient (electronically speaking) but, that's the way i liked it at the time, and i got that piece usually for this very reason. So what we can deduce from this is, one-size-does-not-fit-all..........and people's want/needs/wishes are often very different. Taking nothing away from Jim Williams though, he deserves a big respect for his contributions to the game, but the vision of sonics shared by one, may not be the vision of sonics shared by another.