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<blockquote data-quote="Scott Bolt" data-source="post: 115796" data-attributes="member: 3950">Re: X32 v2 RTAThanks Tamas,My usage is live sound, so my perspective is somewhat different than studio recording.&nbsp; It has been my experience that in the class of mixer we are talking about, the preamps are not much of a factor in the sound quality of the system these days. The microphones and speakers make a much bigger difference, and the most difference of all is how well the sound pro does at setting up and mixing the sound <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I am not debating your empirical findings.&nbsp; I am sure that it sounded better to you.One more question if you don&#039;t mind.When I was auditioning powered speakers, I used the following technique:Have a mono source of recorded music lined up to 2 channels on a mixer.&nbsp; Have one channel panned full left, and the other full right.&nbsp; Have the music shop put one speaker (or speaker setup top over sub) on the left output and the other on the right output.&nbsp; Using the channel eq on the mixer, mix on a single speaker until you get the best sound you can, then repeat on the other side.&nbsp; Once this is done, simply pan from one to the other and see which one sounds better.&nbsp; Try to make the one that sounds worse sound as good as the other one.What I found was that the default voicing of a speaker wasn&#039;t representative of how good of a sound I could get out of a speaker.&nbsp; What I am suggesting is that preamps may be the same and that I think it likely that any difference could easily be equalized out to sound the same.Thanks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Scott Bolt, post: 115796, member: 3950"] Re: X32 v2 RTA Thanks Tamas, My usage is live sound, so my perspective is somewhat different than studio recording. It has been my experience that in the class of mixer we are talking about, the preamps are not much of a factor in the sound quality of the system these days. The microphones and speakers make a much bigger difference, and the most difference of all is how well the sound pro does at setting up and mixing the sound ;) I am not debating your empirical findings. I am sure that it sounded better to you. One more question if you don't mind. When I was auditioning powered speakers, I used the following technique: Have a mono source of recorded music lined up to 2 channels on a mixer. Have one channel panned full left, and the other full right. Have the music shop put one speaker (or speaker setup top over sub) on the left output and the other on the right output. Using the channel eq on the mixer, mix on a single speaker until you get the best sound you can, then repeat on the other side. Once this is done, simply pan from one to the other and see which one sounds better. Try to make the one that sounds worse sound as good as the other one. What I found was that the default voicing of a speaker wasn't representative of how good of a sound I could get out of a speaker. What I am suggesting is that preamps may be the same and that I think it likely that any difference could easily be equalized out to sound the same. Thanks. [/QUOTE]

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