[Ty Ford]

On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:10:36 -0500, Roy W. Rising wrote
(in article ):

(hank alrich) wrote:
Roy W. Rising wrote:

"mcnews" wrote:

guess that does make sense.
i'll head over to atlanta pro audio next week for a demo.

A "Fool and his money" are soon to be parted. It's sad.

Roy, the guy wants to drop $900 on a mic. I ask you again, have _you_
ever used an RNP? I have, and compared it to both low end (Mackie
original 1202), middling (Mackie Onyx) and very good (Millennia and
Great River MP2-MH) preamps. The Mackies were not in the running, at
all. Neither are the pres in my A&H 2200.

Why spend twice the cost of a decent preamp on a mic that one will then
connect to a truly mediocre preamp? Please explain how that makes sense.
An RNP is half his budget. I may have saved him almost half a grand.

When you were mixing for bigtime broadcast, how many Mackies were in the
suite? How many Behringers?

I guess it comes down to this: What, *exactly*, will a high-end
preamplifier do that the chips in lower cost mixers will not? I do not
refer to the added bells and whistles plus booster and/or line amplifier
that comes with the package ... just the preamplifier. Nor do I refer to a
few dB difference in noise or dynamic range, or a few microseconds
difference in transient response.



So that would be a "no?"

Ty Ford


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