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In Reply to: About what I'd expect from a company.... posted by Ozzy on April 25, 2024 at 05:26:22:
Benchmark gear is pro-audio quality--and I do not mean that in a good way. I mean it in the sense of, good enough for the mass market, but well-built and reliable.
Bob Ludwig is now retired, but he had learned that the incoming electrical power was so important so that in the early 1990s when he built his Dream Studio in Maine, he obtained a battery the size of a home refrigerator so he could cut his studio off the grid and run everything on battery power.
Oh, and Bob Ludwig also wired up his signal paths with Transparent Audio Cables.
I think that Bob Ludwig knew a lot more about Critical Listening than Mr. Benchmark does.
Now, I have been involved in recordings since 1968, and professionally since 1982. I have been an audio and music journalist since 1984. I cheerfully admit that there are times that a cable sounds more "different" than better.
And, of course, cable effects are usually dwarfed by the interactions of the loudspeakers with the room acoustics, and the interactions of the loudspeakers and the power amplifiers.
I assure you that Bob Ludwig had those boxes checked off. His studio had the largest-scale (in depth) RPG diffusion panels ever made up to that time, and his loudspeakers were (IIRC) bi-amped with Cello amplifiers. Or perhaps even tri-amped. Whatever, that stack of amps (in a separate enclosure that was its own HVAC zone) could upon demand summon 3 kW.
Bob mastered at least a dozen recordings for me, and it was always a thrill.
john
BTW, I had not known that Snake Oil came from my home town of Providence. But, there were reasons this state was known as "Rogues' Island."
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