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...The digital audio from the control room to here[machine room] is all in solid silver. It comes here into these Weiss anti-jitter boxes, which are supported on cones. They have got a Shakti stone on top of them (which has tuned ferrites and quartz crystals in- these help eliminate RF, EMI and microwave interference)... In my opinion there are a lot of misconceptions about digital audio. Disregarding the good points, some of the bad points are that it is almost impossible to do a digital to digital copy and retain the resolution; it is far more susceptible to the sound changing from many different reasons - RF, A/C mains, harmonic distortion and fluctuation, physical vibrations, etc., than most people realize... ...We listened to 20 different audio cables, because I needed 23 kilometers of cable to make our own patch bay and rewire everything in the studio...We directionalized them all first, of course. Every cable sounds different in a different direction...And every termination is made with silver solder rather than lead solder, because again, it sounds better... |
dwaved wrote on Thu, 31 March 2005 06:38 |
It's breath taking. |
zboy2854 wrote on Fri, 01 April 2005 05:40 |
AND it's Van den Hul cable, which is crazy expensive. I don't even want to do the math on the cost for all that. |
David Schober wrote on Fri, 01 April 2005 15:27 |
Years ago when I was an assistant at Schnee's Studio in LA the Monster Cable people were making the rounds showing how their stuff sounded better than most evey studio's cable running to the two track 1/2". It was true, it did sound better in every shoot out they did until they came to Schnee's which had the plain-jane Belden cabling. (good stuff...but nothing esoteric) Well they were all astonished to hear that the Belden sounded better than theirs! The reason was that Schnee's custom made console had soldered (probably not silver) the Belden wire directly from the output of the summing amp of the console, which ran under the floor and was soldered directly to Neutrik connectors which plugged in to the two track. As direct and clean a connection one could have. The Monster cable people were using their special patch cables which connected to the two track. Most, if not all of the studios had runs from their consoles to several multi-pin connectors which finally reached their two track. The conclusion was that most of the tests that had been done around town were really apples and oranges tests. Not only was the studio's cables a part of the test, but without someone thinking it through, the studios' connections were a part of the test. Many studios would have two or three multipin connectors in the path, all of which degrade the sound every time you go through one. The Monster Cable people left scratching their heads and Schnee got the last laugh. |
wwittman wrote on Fri, 01 April 2005 23:57 |
Dark Side Of The Moon was made without Shakti Stones, directional cable, silver solder or any of the rest of it... and sounds about 100 times better than anything Pink Floyd have done since. |
David Schober wrote on Fri, 01 April 2005 |
No kidding...If I remember correctly he said something about it being "only five times as expensive as normal cable." |
karlo wrote on Mon, 04 April 2005 09:49 |
phil taylor probably "stashed" a huge chunk of gilmour's budget $$$ under his own mattress, and he's now looking to publicly justify the budget overload. sounds like all he talked about was expensive items that are semi-esotheric; shit, they even modified the API pres to make them sound more "transparent". |
bblackwood wrote on Mon, 04 April 2005 08:35 | ||
Wow, I don't think accusations such as that are warranted. If Gilmour was unhappy, do you think he would still be with him 20 years later? Let's keep the character attacks about people we don't know off the boards, please. Besides, they wouldn't be the first people to modify APIs to make them less colored... |