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<blockquote data-quote="Arik Semagin" data-source="post: 130574" data-attributes="member: 5072">Re: Not A Pleasant First Outing with the M32That was the first thing I&#039;ve noticed looking at the M32 pics from NAMM: its look has definite priority over functionality. I don&#039;t know if any real world sound engineer was involved at the design stage, but these barely visible red dots at the buttons is a serious flaw. The only other desk that&#039;s worse in this respect is&nbsp; AVID S3L, lights are also barely visible (on that one buttons are copied straight from studio S6 desk, obviously no one tested them under bright sun on a live gig). Being fan of Profile, I just can&#039;t stand S3L though.Also, seems like that &quot;96K-capable&quot; thing we&#039;ve been mumbling about since January boils down just to ability to use DL25 and DL15 series stageboxes clocked down to 48K. What&#039;s the point of introducing DL16 altogether, besides Ultranet/P16 monitoring? DL251 costs not whole lot more than two DL16 ($3.5K even on eBay), and preamps are supposedly the same in both.Frankly my excitement about M32 went down. Would keep using X32 and probably get Yamaha QL5 instead of M32. Price is double, but looks like it&#039;s worth it. Not whole lot bigger, but has everything I wish M32 had.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arik Semagin, post: 130574, member: 5072"] Re: Not A Pleasant First Outing with the M32 That was the first thing I've noticed looking at the M32 pics from NAMM: its look has definite priority over functionality. I don't know if any real world sound engineer was involved at the design stage, but these barely visible red dots at the buttons is a serious flaw. The only other desk that's worse in this respect is AVID S3L, lights are also barely visible (on that one buttons are copied straight from studio S6 desk, obviously no one tested them under bright sun on a live gig). Being fan of Profile, I just can't stand S3L though. Also, seems like that "96K-capable" thing we've been mumbling about since January boils down just to ability to use DL25 and DL15 series stageboxes clocked down to 48K. What's the point of introducing DL16 altogether, besides Ultranet/P16 monitoring? DL251 costs not whole lot more than two DL16 ($3.5K even on eBay), and preamps are supposedly the same in both. Frankly my excitement about M32 went down. Would keep using X32 and probably get Yamaha QL5 instead of M32. Price is double, but looks like it's worth it. Not whole lot bigger, but has everything I wish M32 had. [/QUOTE]

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