Fletcher,
Your cheap "punked out" shots are quite typical of your methodology. I guess I shouldn't expect anything else.
The fact is, the last time I invited you to do tests was during the San Francisco AES show over a year ago (after one of your dissertations about how much our X73 doesn't sound like a 1073).
I wanted to simply put two of our modules next to two vintage 1073's and two AMS Neve's in side by side comparisons in a professional recording and listening environment listening to actual performances of musicians and singers being recorded live. You didn't believe that you could hear significant differences between our gear and the Neve modules in that test scenario.
Really Fletcher, I don't think it's that difficult.
Think of it like this: Let’s say you are painting a wall in your home and run out of paint half way down the wall. You go to the paint store and they mix up another gallon of paint according to a certain formula for the color you want.
Now if you start painting on the wall where you left off with the old paint, with the two colors side by side, you usually can see some differences. If you paint over the whole wall with the new gallon of paint, you usually have a much harder time seeing the differences compared to the other walls in the room, because they are farther away and more difficult to compare side by side.
I mean honestly Fletcher, most people in the real world only own one or two channels of several different brands of mic preamps anyway. We can record multiple tracks using the Neve, AMS Neve and X73 modules if you wish.... like most folks do. If you'd like to place the recordings we do in a mix and then try to pick out which is which then that would be great as well.
Why don't you give it a try?
Dallas