Hi all,

I've tried every present in StereoTool and that I can find on this forum and the only sound I can find that actually makes music sound better is the Orban 8600 MX preset. Sometimes I think I've found something that's louder and sounds just as good, but then I A/B test against the 8600 and realise that the Orban preset is either just as loud or so much more natural sounding, or both.

It's the only present I have found that's you can't hear "working". Somehow it just matches what your ears do.

I'm listening to dance music mostly (sorry!). And it's just for listening and making mixes sound great, not for real radio.

I just wondered if anyone has had the same experience but then found a great preset – or tweaks to an existing preset – that trumped the 8600? I know it's an old preset and doesn't use loads of the new settings, that's why I find it odd that it's not yet been de-throned,

Cheers
Ben

The preset should be renamed by who ever made it, just my opinion though. Orban Optimod units at least the latest digital models use 2 or 5 bands for processing. The 8600 MX StereoTool preset sounds good but to make it sound like an Optimod 8600 using the MX presets, you need to replicate the audio chain such as the multiband crossover frequencys, timings besides many other things which are very difficult and time consumming to do especially when you dont own a digital Optimod product. I might have a go at making a preset that replicates the audio chain of the 8600 using the MX presets since i did replicate a number of presets, even though i dont own a digital Optimod.