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<blockquote data-quote="Chris Johnson" data-source="post: 100392" data-attributes="member: 975">Re: Sign of the times. I just bought this for $1,300.Ugh. Really? You think the other 100 or so &#039;A-Listers&#039; who carry digital boards don&#039;t care about audio quality?I&#039;m sorry, but statements like that just highlight a lack of experience.Engineers pick their consoles for sooo many reasons. Every FOH engineer who is well-paid and busy cares deeply about audio quality on their shows, and that absolutely factors into their console choices. But so does comfort, familiarity, money (believe me, if I owned an XL4, I&#039;d me making sure I was hiring it to production...), ergonomics, etc...It is an antiquated notion that digital is somehow inferior in terms of quality to analog. Its just not true. Why do you think Midas stopped making the XL3/XL4? This is especially true in live sound, where you can&#039;t guarantee all the essentials for good quality analog audio.People view the analog world through rose tinted glasses. Have we forgotten the days of swapping out modules, dirty gain pots, chasing down grounding issues, swapping PSUs, outboard issues? I spend half my life putting big audio systems in for big shows, and they almost always entail a primary digital system, and a backup analog system. You don&#039;t even wanna know how much time gets spent trying to minimise the noise floor on the analog side.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chris Johnson, post: 100392, member: 975"] Re: Sign of the times. I just bought this for $1,300. Ugh. Really? You think the other 100 or so 'A-Listers' who carry digital boards don't care about audio quality? I'm sorry, but statements like that just highlight a lack of experience. Engineers pick their consoles for sooo many reasons. Every FOH engineer who is well-paid and busy cares deeply about audio quality on their shows, and that absolutely factors into their console choices. But so does comfort, familiarity, money (believe me, if I owned an XL4, I'd me making sure I was hiring it to production...), ergonomics, etc... It is an antiquated notion that digital is somehow inferior in terms of quality to analog. Its just not true. Why do you think Midas stopped making the XL3/XL4? This is especially true in live sound, where you can't guarantee all the essentials for good quality analog audio. People view the analog world through rose tinted glasses. Have we forgotten the days of swapping out modules, dirty gain pots, chasing down grounding issues, swapping PSUs, outboard issues? I spend half my life putting big audio systems in for big shows, and they almost always entail a primary digital system, and a backup analog system. You don't even wanna know how much time gets spent trying to minimise the noise floor on the analog side. [/QUOTE]

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