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or is it better to
set every thing up, and have a room full of racks.

Most people who have that, do so for historic reasons.

Most people's favorite albums, soundwise, seem to be the
ones
recorded and mixed that way, in the rooms full of racks.
True,
most of them were recorded before the advent of modern
integrated "in-the-box" all-digital technology. However,
the
albums done the "traditional" way still represent the
majority
of the comparatively rare recent examples of true sonic
excellence.

Choices that are made in the absence of significantly
different alternatives, which is what all this history is,
aren't really choices at all.



You keep insisting on history, Arny. Let's talk about today. We have
significantly different alternatives today, don't we? One of them produces
exceptional, sweetest-sounding, sonically most pleasing results far more
consistently than the other(s). I believe that's what makes it the prevalent
choice of audio professionals in pursue of the ultimate in overall sound
quality. Not the historic reasons as you're trying to dismiss it.



Now you can call the reasons for that "historic" or even
"nostalgic". I'd personally rather use the terms
"pragmatic"
and "esthetic".

The pragmatism lies in the fact that so many of the modern
alternatives were simply not available, or in many cases not
even thought of when the recordings in question were made.



I think we are all fortunate for that. But that's history. We have
alternatives now. And yet most of the RNSA (Really Nice Sounding Albums) are
still produced using essentially the same technology as 20 years ago, using
the combination of analog and digital equipment and mixing through an analog
console. In spite of ever-increasing pressure on recording budgets and the
presence of already mature, widely-accepted, less costly and more
maintenance-friendly "in-the-box" alternative, the one you so passionately
promote.



Contemplate what would have happened if a PC with an onboard
sound card and modern recording software had showed up in
1948.


Music would have probably been the playground/battlefield of objectivists,
subjectivists, DBT-ists and other scientific types. As an art form it would
have been as exclusive and exciting as reading the telephone book.

Even if there would have been such thing as rec.audio.pro there's no way I
would have been here today. But you surely would have. Probably a much
happier person too.

I feel your pain.

Predrag