PLParEQ1?

[fritzman]

ok you don't bay and i don't bay it

we wiil use audiowarez

I don't understand what you're saying!?

[VicDiesel]

The medical issues don't worry me at all. Instead their receptor combos are called system x000, too much like tc systems for my liking. They also had screen grabs of prototypes that looked like tassman. All that is gone now. Who knows, overzelous nuffy might be onto something. We need somebody knowledgeable to listen to the eq.

Methinks that EQ should be pretty much irrelevant to their hearing compensation or whatever they call it.

Ok, so I'm not getting any younger and while I used to hear 16K at 0db, these days 14K is the max, and only if I pump it good. Surely they can never bring back the 16K? And are they simply going to throw an EQ over the sound to pump up the high frequencies that I hear attenuated? From the description I get entirely no idea what it is their product does.

[zck]

well, i don't really care what anyone claims. The Eq sounds excellent to me. Quality 5 and multiple instances work afterall. Solidity, clarity and precision on a level i haven't expereienced before.

[Frippertronix]

Did anybody try the EQ? How is it for you?

Outstanding. Possibly worth over $1K if the GUI is every bit as good as the best EQ GUI's out there and they do somehow limit the CPU hit. It is a very good linear phase EQ, IMO. Sadly, though, the payware version will be out of my price range.

[Frippertronix]

well, i don't really care what anyone claims. The Eq sounds excellent to me. Quality 5 and multiple instances work afterall. Solidity, clarity and precision on a level i haven't expereienced before.

Yes, they didn't say anything about limits on multiple instances other than that the 10 band will be CPU optimized over using multiples of the free version and the GUI will be better. Seriously, I'd buy it in a heartbeat even at $1500 if I had serious bankroll, but I, like almost everyone on this board, do not have anything such as that.

I have to take back my blasting of them, though, since it was and is most kind of them to share their technology with the lowly to the extent that they did. Maybe they felt like it wasn't going to cut into their pro business to release a very basic free version so they decided to be nice.

I wish they would realize that they really would probably make more money in the long run if they cut the price down to 1/3 of what they are projecting and open it to a much more vast, but really equally serious and dedicated, market of musicians. I think many of us would pay three or even four hundred for a serious and outstanding mastering EQ, but almost none of us will even dream of paying $1500, which is the price of a new computer.

[RaelDWTW]

Hmm.. and what's with the additional (?) behringer post eq-options in their System 1200? a company that charges $1500 for a VST-only plugin (!) includes the word behringer in their horrible GUI. and the strange abbreviations? like voxengo on steroids. i'm very doubtful.

and about the system 1000: "..This provides about a quarter of the high-end quality of the System 2000, and half again as much as the System 5000. But despite this it sounds extremely good. Only the finest ears can appreciate the higher performance offered by its high-end siblings." ...well. isn't the whole idea that you don't have "the finest ears"... that why you'd buy it in the first place isn't it? and imagine the outerworldly set of ears you'd have to wear to appreciate the sound of the system 5000. if you had those ears you'd.. well.. buy the product to prove it?

and the alleged demands on cpu.. well receptor's gotta be one hell of a machine (i don't know it at all) to run the system 5000, and still an average computer like mine can't even handle one instance of this one-band lin. eq. in high quality mode?

...well now i'm off to test the actual eq.

regards..

[Left Headphone]

$1500... You could buy Waves Platinum Bundle and get all of these:

NEW! C4 Multiband Parametric Processor
NEW! Renaissance Reverberator
Renaissance Compressor (now 56-bit, dithered)
Renaissance Equalizer
L1 Ultramaximizer (now 48-bit, dithered)
MaxxBass
Q10 Paragraphic Equalizer
S1 Stereo Imager (with 48-bit component)
C1 Parametric Compander
PS22 Pseudostereo
Enigma
Supertap
MondoMod
Doppler
UltraPitch
MetaFlanger
TrueVerb Room Emulator
DeEsser
AudioTrack
PAZ Psychoacoustic Analyzer
Linear Phase Equalizer
Linear Phase Multiband
L2 Ultramaximizer
Renaissance VOX
Renaissance Bass
Renaissance DeEsser

[Frippertronix]

Same price as the Algorithmix lin EQ's, though, so there is precedent. Obviously these things are aimed at bigger studios.

[Frippertronix]

and still an average computer like mine can't even handle one instance of this one-band lin. eq. in high quality mode?

Mine, which is no powerhouse, could handle it. The real issue was latency at level 5, which obviously is no issue when mastering. Pile them up on tracks, though, and you would start having issues. I'm not sure why they implied 1 band would be an issue. Not true. These guys seem to have an affinity for hype to some degree.

[Frippertronix]

Another issue to beat the horse some more. This hearing enhancer has [ominous music plays]....ILok.

I guess one might say the dongle has been driven through the heart of th 10 band in the eyes of the average KVRian . That is, assuming they plan to go that way with the EQ.

I sure hope for their sake they give the 10 band a serious GUI and include at least the option for graphic manipulation. They should take a look at Algorithmix, which I'm sure they have already, or at the Timeworks EQ. If the two GUI's we've seen so far are any indication, I'm sad to say the 10 band GUI will not be very well received in the price range they are talking about.

[RaelDWTW]

I've done some further researching. After careful consideration I can safely say that the credibility of this company as well as the quality of their products and scientific ground work is in the league of those "enlarge your penis"-adverts. Luckily they've made the mistake of putting their "products" in the astronomical price range, so very few schmucks will afford to be fooled.

[diverdee]

professional products for professional people......nothing for you here.

[sirocco]

well, i don't really care what anyone claims. The Eq sounds excellent to me. Quality 5 and multiple instances work afterall. Solidity, clarity and precision on a level i haven't expereienced before.

yeah you did a good job on this plugin so was your limiter!

[Sascha Franck]

In another thread this was mentioned allready... and at first I've been fooled to believe this was serious as well. But all the lot of you actually reading their site should bý now know that this is a hoax. A good one partially, but still a hoax.

System 1200 has been specifically adapted to the Behringer UB802 Mini-EuroRack mixer which can serve as both headphone amplifier with makeup gain, as well as providing some outboard equalization against which System 1200 can perform de-emphasis to preserve operating headroom.

I'd say this should leave no doubts.

Edit: They took that passage away

[fritzman]

In another thread this was mentioned allready... and at first I've been fooled to believe this was serious as well. But all the lot of you actually reading their site should bý now know that this is a hoax. A good one partially, but still a hoax.

System 1200 has been specifically adapted to the Behringer UB802 Mini-EuroRack mixer which can serve as both headphone amplifier with makeup gain, as well as providing some outboard equalization against which System 1200 can perform de-emphasis to preserve operating headroom.

I'd say this should leave no doubts.

Edit: They took that passage away

Yes,

the story is really "cool". But did you try the FREE equalizer?


Best wishes, FRitz