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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold.
Post Subject: The Pacific AD and DA in "fight".Posted by Romy the Cat on: 9/29/2007
Quite sensational, truly. I can’t not at this point to say that it is better of worth: Lavry Gold AD and DA chain of the Pacific. The Pacific has own “softness” twist and some extra futures making it difficult to “compare” with Lavrys. Much higher input sensitivity is one for instance, allowing me to record at -1/5 dB. Also there is an ability to play with custom dithering. At 44kHz and 16Bit Pacific way more capable then Lavry, measurements and sound-vise. At 88kHz and 24 bit I do not know (and I made a number of interning measurements at -90dB). Pacific tosses much more radio noise according to measurements but at the same time the auditable noise after Pacific sounds very-very slightly more pleasant. Both Pacific AD/DA and Lavry AD/DA are very close, both VERY acceptable, very neutral and none-abusive sounding. I will record the comparative files from both of them and you will see. As for now I will live with both Pacific and Lavry Gold for a while, see how different they “live” in a long ran. A properly set up Pacific (it tock me for a while to do it) is truly single-button operation processor. Cruelly it feeds 4 channels of my Lynx-16 card (in dual-wire mode), no HDCD encoding; also Lynx use the Pacific’s clock as master-clock. I juts wish the Pacific had one more digital input, allowing me to add a stream from my transport… Anyhow, I'm ready for the new season…

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