BrentEvans wrote:Exactly. Today, SAC is replacing mixers that cost $2000-$4000 and it sounds as good as systems costing $10,000-$15,000.
SAC isn't replacing ANYTHNG...anywhere. In your mind perhaps, but not in real life. The exception to that might be some church guys replacing their 30 year old Tascam mixer that blew up.
I think there are very few people that can afford a A&H GLD or one of is competitors that would buy SAC.
There are few few people anywhere that would buy SAC, except on this forum where a few poor suckers bought in years ago. Hell, you can pick up a license for peanuts on the lost and found on the other forum ... with no takers.
SAC is playing in the X32/Studiolive/Si Expression/A&H Qu market, and in bang for buck it is better than all of those.
SAC *isn't playing anywhere* other than a few low end gigs using lunch tables for sound towers as you read about on this forum. I know you wish that it were used on real money-making gigs somewhere, but it's not. Get a grip. Given a choice, anyone in their right mind would do better buying one of those cheap consoles you mentioned, regardless of how highly you regard some feature that no one else cares about because they don't use it ... or don't make enough money to spread the $1-2K difference out over a couple of years. I get the feeling you would have too, but they just weren't available at the time. Two years from now, the game will change again. I put everything I buy on the market immediately, and when it sells, just go buy another ... even - steven. It's always new.
That said, a few years ago when those didn't exist, you couldn't buy or put together a system at the same price point that could even get close. Even if you bought Behringer gear, you couldn't do it for $2000-$3000, which is the average startup cost of SAC. ($700 32 channel mixer + $900 for 6 stereo comps + $900 for 6 stereo EQs = $2500, and that's not even close to what SAC offers).
Yes, if you want to have a conversation about the cheapest shit you could possibly build, SAC can enter that conversation. If the conversation extends to equipment people actually want to use or need to work quickly on, and/or reliability, marketability, etc. then SAC exits that conversation.
I agree that a great engineer with good equipment can get great sound. A great engineer with even premium equipment can get awesome sound. You simply can't take the equipment out of it.
Well you can believe if you want that a stranger walking by and saying something sounds good is all because of SAC if you want to live in that Kool Aid drenched fantasy land. It must have been the incredible resolution and accuracy of the bottom line JBL consumer products on sticks that were being used that are usually reported here as blowing up on a regular basis.
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