D-Command and D-Control: Controlling Sound Monitors

[Intini]

I am planing on buying a D-Command or a D-Control in the next months. I wonder if I should get a Crane Song Avocet to control my monitors now or I should just buy a SPL Volume 2 (or SPL 2Control) and then wait until I get the D-Command or D-Control and use it to control the monitors. By the way, I am assuming that both (Command and Control) have a monitor controller(?). Do they? Is it comparable to the Avocet (or Grace Design or Dangerous Music stuff)? If I am going to spend £2300 (pounds!) on the Avocet and then later the D-Control (or D-Command) has it all there may be no point!
Please, you out there with a D-Control or a D-Command, can you comment on your experience with monitor controlling?

Thank you so much!

P.S.: If you would like to make a one line comment on the C|24 monitor section that would be appreciated, as there is 1% of chance of getting it instead of the Icon.

[Mikey MTC]

The monitoring path in the D-Command and D-Control is via the XMon which ships with it. It's a very full featured analog section which sounds very good.

While you might get marginally better audio performance with a Avocet or other device, the Xmon is beautifully integrated into the ICON environment.

I suppose this might depend if your motivation is some sort of convenience or feature set that the external controller has, or whether it's pure audio performance.

[Intini]

Originally Posted by Mikey MTC

The monitoring path in the D-Command and D-Control is via the XMon which ships with it. It's a very full featured analog section which sounds very good.

While you might get marginally better audio performance with a Avocet or other device, the Xmon is beautifully integrated into the ICON environment.

I suppose this might depend if your motivation is some sort of convenience or feature set that the external controller has, or whether it's pure audio performance.

Thank you so much for your answer. I am interested in audio performance basically. I want the most transparent audio signal possible.

[Will Russell]

I have no issues with the sound of the D-Command monitoring path. Like Mikey MTC said, it is very full featured and sounds very good.

[Mikey MTC]

There could be some argument for better audio performance but you would be getting down to the minutae. Seriously, the XMon is no slouch in this regard - a serious improvement on anything Digi's had before in previous work surfaces and right up there with the expensive dedicated systems.

Also, I couldn't imagine using a secondary monitoring solution with the D-Control. It would be a PITA to set up, you'd have to put it somewhere convenient which may not be possible, and after all that, you really may not gain anything.

[dr sound]

Try This:
http://www.neyrinck.com/Pages/vmon.html