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While it's not actually part of the recording chain, quality monitors are essential for quality output. You're going to be making editing and sound sculpting decisions based on what you hear from your monitors. It they're not giving you accurate information, your results will reflect that.
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I'll also second Kev's comments that these days, quality of A/D-D/A conversion and pretty much anything that happens once you get to the digital realm is all a wash. The differences--if any--are so small that they are totally swamped by all the other considerations. |
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Back when I was first getting into recording, I did some stuff at a nice studio run by Joe Weed, who has recorded albums for Martin Simpson among others, and he told me much the same story. He gave me his "top 10" list for what went into a good recording, which was: 1,2,3: the player 4,5,6: the instrument 7: room acoustics 8: the recording engineer 9: mics Distant 10th place: all other gear, preamps, a/d's, recorder, etc That said, if you're down in the minute details of that last few percentage points, one interesting test I ran across a long time back was the Sheffield Disc tests. There's a test for D/A conversion (not A/D, sadly - it's more meant for home theatre setup). I tried it on a pile of converters I had, from my built-in soundblaster card, to an RME fireface, Cranesong HEDD, and a few others. As I recall, the results were about what you'd expect, the Cranesong passed with flying colors, the RME was just a tad behind but still more than fine, and the soundblaster failed embarrassingly badly. That was quite a long time back, I imagine built-in soundcards are a lot better now.
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