[Scott Dorsey]

Romeo Rondeau wrote:

You forgot to add that if your DAW is the new Cubase or Nuendo and you
have a real soundcard, not a toy, it's useless... unless you like to
"spin them rekkid's, yo!" Oh wait... they do give you a big knob :-)

Until something goes wrong with your software and the soundcard starts
spitting out noise at 0dBFS. A real monitor panel gives you a quick
place to shut it down, and also means you're using the D/A at much
higher levels (since the gain control is after the D/A instead of
before it).

Also, of course, you get zero-latency monitoring through a real monitor
panel, which you don't through any software.

But then, I don't really like DAW systems at all and I much prefer having
physical hardware to do any job.
--scott
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