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<blockquote data-quote="Phil Graham" data-source="post: 39554" data-attributes="member: 430">Re: Well, THAT&#039;s Not Gonna Fucking Work!Pat,I&#039;ve measured several 260s, and they are fine with respect to what Bennett sees here. It is the only drive rack I have recommended to people.The 260 still suffers from inadequate parametrics, infuriating UI, lousy software, and pointless features that I wish were allocated to more parametrics/allpass/etc. It may not be a great product, but once you set it up, it does what it is supposed to do.-PhilAn Aside: I&#039;ve had 3 &quot;which DSP&quot; discussions with people in the past couple weeks, and the field is increasingly sparse. For a fixed signal path DSP at a mid market price, the Xilica XP product is the only one I can feel comfortable with, though it also has pretty lousy software. The Lake LM is the only new fixed signal path DSP that is really top kit.There are plenty of good flexible signal path &quot;drag and drop&quot; dsps that normally are used in the install world. I&#039;ve all but given up on fixed path products. If A&amp;H produced a loudspeaker-centric iLive rack box with parametrics, allpass, xo, etc. that was controllable from their iPad app, that would be a killer loudspeaker DSP.This is of course an outgrowth of loudspeaker manufacturers now producing really good black box processors, or in-amplifier processing. I am all for the trend, but it leaves people without black box system controllers increasingly looking about.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Phil Graham, post: 39554, member: 430"] Re: Well, THAT's Not Gonna Fucking Work! Pat, I've measured several 260s, and they are fine with respect to what Bennett sees here. It is the only drive rack I have recommended to people. The 260 still suffers from inadequate parametrics, infuriating UI, lousy software, and pointless features that I wish were allocated to more parametrics/allpass/etc. It may not be a great product, but once you set it up, it does what it is supposed to do. -Phil [B]An Aside[/B]: I've had 3 "which DSP" discussions with people in the past couple weeks, and the field is increasingly sparse. For a fixed signal path DSP at a mid market price, the Xilica XP product is the only one I can feel comfortable with, though it also has pretty lousy software. The Lake LM is the only new fixed signal path DSP that is really top kit. There are plenty of good flexible signal path "drag and drop" dsps that normally are used in the install world. I've all but given up on fixed path products. If A&H produced a loudspeaker-centric iLive rack box with parametrics, allpass, xo, etc. that was controllable from their iPad app, that would be a killer loudspeaker DSP. This is of course an outgrowth of loudspeaker manufacturers now producing really good black box processors, or in-amplifier processing. I am all for the trend, but it leaves people without black box system controllers increasingly looking about. [/QUOTE]

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