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jeff0633 said:Hi folks. seeing an ad a little while ago got me to thinking. FMR audio has the rNP, Maudio the Tampa, and other companies have similar stuff, but then I see an Ad for a single channel Avalon M5 for 1200 dollars. Can they seriously say that their single channel mic pre is 900 dollars better than a mic pre from an RNP? Somehow I find that hard to accept. One of the pres in the RNP is around $230 dollars. Is the Avalon M5 really 900 dollars BETTER? Can Avalon really come forward with this suggestion? When will the big-time expensive pres start coming down in price. It seems some of them are living in the past, before the huge glut of home studios and didgital audio, when hardly no one had a bedroom studio. These changes have spawned an entire new "audio arms race" where products are getting better and better. the RNP is a classic example of this. This is a very high quality unit for 230 bucks per channel. I don't believe for a second that the Avalon M5 is 900 dollars better per channel. Do you? Are companies like Avalon living in the era when there were very few bedroom studios or what? Won't there be more and more companies releasing great products like the RNP, the Brick, the Tampa and all that? Won't companies like Avalon be forced to face the fact that mic pres by other companies are Coming closer and closer to the quality that they have, and are doing it for far cheaper than they are? I realize that the Avalon is a better pre than the RNP, but 900 DOLLARS BETTER? I would love to hear some other thoughts on this. Will RNP quality for 500 bucks be something we can look forward to from other companies?
Thanks
Jeff
OK. I come to you and tell you that I want you to record a Pink Floyd Concert. It is a reunion and a one shot deal.
Can you honestly sit back and consider using an RNP or a dozen other "cheap" pieces of equipment realizing that if anything dies, you missed the only moment in history?
Imagine. Pro equipment soars over the cheaper equipment in so many areas other than sound. This is a beat to death type of post where people sure don't get it. Go to your mechanic and tell him to use anything BUT Snap-On tools. Sure they cost ten times more, but any real pro mechanic understands why.