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There is wrong to say someone is "ignorance" without to say why ? Only one sentence and that`s all ?!
Is this wrong or not ?
You are right, DJ-DOGGY.
I am big fan of the Optimods, especially the newer, like the 8600 (only my opinion).
And I can tell you that I have the possibility to directly compare the ST with an Orban 8600. The 8600 runs with a preset that satisfies me as well as a couple of in House colleagues including the program director. It was a bit hard cause the direct competition also uses the 8600. It was hard to make a sound with high amount of brilliance, kick- bass (no humming bass) and with all this it should be percieved as less as same loudness as the competitive Station. Note that we have to use BS.412. Nearly weekly I am comparing the Sound coming from the Orban with the Sound coming from ST. The setup is this way, that a copy of the Signal going into the orban is going into ST, and I can switch the monitor source directly between the Outputs of 8600 and ST. To compare the loudness I measure the multiplex power at both outputs. ST is running without declipper, ND, Bass Boost and so on.
What I have to notice is, that it is possible to create a similar Sound - when you see e.g. one song. Next song - different sound. It is in fact hard to reach nearly the same Sound consistency with ST like an Orban. That is the big advance for the Orban. E.G. when you have a song with clipped highs the orban in a nearly magical way compensates for this; even such songs doesn`t sound strained....
Another example is the AGC. At the Orban it runs with a 4:1 ratio and is way more effective than the ST- AGC. Comparing the gain reductions Shows that the gain reduction difference in music vs. dry speech is way bigger at the Orban as in ST, regardless of the Settings like Speeds nd so on. But the bigger difference is that what I Need to let the speech stand out and let the speech reach a bigger loudness, otherwise the listener has to turn up the volume at the Radio to understand the speech. Also when you see that you have to process in preparation for BS.412 the Orban- AGC is a big help, cause dense source material is attenuated further - will not compressed as high as other material...
To understand it right, I like the Sound coming out from ST, it is a great tool. And even on an 8600 I don`t like every detail...
But I see this as a kind of challenge to compare ST with the greatest unit I have ever seen for FM Audio processing.
But - like said - ONLY my opinion.
Regards,
Robert