[bassmac]

Brother Tony...That's a good link. Every time I here this explained by the Digi folks, they never commit to "which sounds best"...they do need to stay neutral of course.

I talked to some pretty respectable (Non-Digi) engineer types at NAMM who seemed to think the "summing" is what degrades the quality. The distortion you "can't see", along with a little jitter over lot's-O tracks = do-do.

Since it's human nature to fill up all available tracks, maybe it's the high TDM track count that's degrading their sound, and making the 001 sound more open or whatever.

Maybe this also explains why outputting to an analog console for mixdown sounds better, even though the board may be totally neutral (?)

Makes you think...