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In the Thread: Digital recorders: what the "big boys" use?
Post Subject: Converters comparation.Posted by xandcg on: 12/4/2021
These are a bunch of test files someone did to compare convertors, just pro-audio stuff. I found the link on GearSpace (former GearSlutz) sometime ago, and I don't remember which were the others electronics involved, except (IIRC) everything was the same but the tested convertors.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/z6wcsl5in76vau5/AABW2WZmQcPkhA5PfRVMo7JBa?dl=0
For what it worth, my interested is just the DAD AX32 and Merging HAPI, and it seems to me the Merging is a bit more detailed but also sound slightly more artificial.
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Just to add a couple of things, DAD AX32 and Merging HAPI/Horus are *supposedly* to be the two most transparent converters at the moment, with DAD being generally preferred by professionals recording classical/opera and Merging everyone else. Merging used to use DAD stuff before they launch the HORUS (HAPI is a scaled down, read cheaper, HORUS), and the ProTools converter is a rebranded DAD AX32 with ProTools DigiLink.
So, apparently classical recordings are now mainly done in DSD, with Merging Pyramix DAW the preferred one to do so, and Merging is making it really hard to record DSD using DAD AX32 + Pyramix.
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One thing I didn't knew about Pacific Microsonics, it was bought by Microsoft to take over their patents and so this is hard to believe the Berkeley Audio Design products (the company founded by the Pacific guys) would be anything close the the Pacific's sound since they are unlikely to be allowed to use the same technology.
Best regards,
Alex.
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