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<blockquote data-quote="Barry Gilmour" data-source="post: 85082" data-attributes="member: 4245">Re: X32 track by track recordingNo offence but 3K is a lot of money for people who are getting $30 -$50&nbsp; or less per hour&nbsp; in a studio that is not booked 7 days a week round the clock.The technology used in the converters, pres , and computer interfaces of the day have reached a point where there are very small differences in price verses quality. In many cases it comes down to personal taste for the sound. I agree with you some features&nbsp; are too expensive to include on a $3000 board , but one expects and&nbsp; can get a low noise floor for very little these days. In a mass production environment&nbsp; such as the one that exists at Berhinger it makes much more economic sense to improve&nbsp; on, and then protect the brand name by offering a lot of quality features for less money. All the&nbsp; while they still make a wonderful profit by selling&nbsp; many more units at slightly less of a profit margin. Berhinger has much to prove with this product and it&#039;s success can only help increase sales of their other products . In this age of fewer dollars and greater numbers of choices ,protecting the Brand is the most important goal of any company. I happen to love this board. I have used and owned i/o from RME, SSL, and find that in the mix differences are hard to detect.&nbsp; If 99 % of my listeners cannot hear a difference then that is good enough for me . People listen with Ipads using MP3s. where is the weakest link? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />~:-D~:grin:</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Barry Gilmour, post: 85082, member: 4245"] Re: X32 track by track recording No offence but 3K is a lot of money for people who are getting $30 -$50 or less per hour in a studio that is not booked 7 days a week round the clock.The technology used in the converters, pres , and computer interfaces of the day have reached a point where there are very small differences in price verses quality. In many cases it comes down to personal taste for the sound. I agree with you some features are too expensive to include on a $3000 board , but one expects and can get a low noise floor for very little these days. In a mass production environment such as the one that exists at Berhinger it makes much more economic sense to improve on, and then protect the brand name by offering a lot of quality features for less money. All the while they still make a wonderful profit by selling many more units at slightly less of a profit margin. Berhinger has much to prove with this product and it's success can only help increase sales of their other products . In this age of fewer dollars and greater numbers of choices ,protecting the Brand is the most important goal of any company. I happen to love this board. I have used and owned i/o from RME, SSL, and find that in the mix differences are hard to detect. If 99 % of my listeners cannot hear a difference then that is good enough for me . People listen with Ipads using MP3s. where is the weakest link? :D~:-D~:grin: [/QUOTE]

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