Sound Devices Scorpio Mixer/Recorder : 16 Preamps / 32 Channels
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puredrifting
Major Contributor
Very impressive. I predict this will become standard kit for a lot of episodic and feature mixers who need a lot of inputs and outputs. Sound Devices makes such great gear, I will be suprised of this isn't an excellent sounding and functioning product.
Greg Smith
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Time to trade in my Nagra IV.
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Run&Gun
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That'll get you a little over half-way there.
Does it have the new Velvet Buttercream AKM ADCs? 
https://www.akm.com/akm/en/product/featured/velvetsound/adc/
https://www.akm.com/akm/en/product/featured/velvetsound/adc/
puredrifting
Major Contributor
Does it have the new Velvet Buttercream AKM ADCs?
https://www.akm.com/akm/en/product/featured/velvetsound/adc/
The epitome of all fluff and no substance. I spent the 80s in the world of high end consumer audio, I have rarely heard so much meaningless hyperbole and never seen so many Emporers New Clothes. At least Kashmir Pre-amps have a cool name. Velvet should be reserved for Costanzas track suit and red cake.
High1ander
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Really nice specs and features, but the price tag is about 3000-4000$ outside of my budget. I guess I will have to settle for F8, 633 or MixPre-10...
Your MixPre3 has AKM Velvet Sound converters- sound OK? I looked but couldn't find any info for the Scorpio converters online- likely AKM?
I think they're doing their best to make their excellent chips sound good from a marketing angle and perhaps something is lost in translation?
https://www.gearslutz.com/board/gee...o-interfaces-their-ad-da-chips-listed-13.html
A friend has Bowers & Wilkin's level gear and associated monoblocks and who knows what else (built into a wall in his living room). He sold hi-fi gear in college. My relatively cheap modded Stax electrostatic earspeakers with the low-end 'energizer' driven by a Sound Devices USBPre2 sounds better haha (hard to compete with the physics of the electrostatic design). They're not very pretty though.
These sure do look pretty (or not depending on taste):
https://www.bowerswilkins.com/home-audio/nautilus
Only $60K per pair (there are speakers on the market that cost way more- it's art at that price. One example: https://sightandsoundgallery.com/products/focal-grand-utopia-em-floor-standing-speakers .
puredrifting
Major Contributor
Interesting, I didn't know that's what the velvets were and that they were in my Mix Pre 3. The Mix Pre 3 certainly sounds good, I just hate those naming conventions. And I think the Kashmir preamp name is cool but I was always a huge Led Zepellin fan ;-)