2000F wrote on Wed, 28 November 2007 17:51 |
. Any one care to comments if the new units just as good as the original units?
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When Right Track bought a 96 input VX in 1997, part of the package was 32 of the recently reissued 1081's in 4 racks of 8.
AMS/Neve was just ramping up manufacture of the reissues and could not deliver them on schedule. So they procured 32 original 1081's from an 8048 console, racked them up and let us use them until the reissues were ready.
We were quite happy with the loaned originals. They were in good shape and sounded fine.
When the reissues were finally delivered, we had the luxury of comparing them, sonic and technical, for 2 weeks.
The reissues won all contests.
No scratchy pots, no intermittent switches. The originals had a slight veiled sound when compared to the reissues which had more solid bass and extended top end.
We all agreed the reissues sounded like we remembered 1081's sounded like when we first encountered them in the 70's.
We had no remorse returning the originals back to AMS/Neve.
2 years ago Sony purchased 2 of the 1073 reissues.
We've had them side by side with many a cherished original brought in by producers and engineers. No one has had any complaints about the reissues lacking in any way compared to the originals.