Antelope Audio Eclipse 384 Stereo AD/DA Converter/Clock and Monitor Controller
By Lynn Fuston
"When it came time to listen, I went to the mastering room of renowned mastering engineer Glenn Meadows, formerly of Masterfonics and now with Mayfield Mastering, whose credits include Shania Twain, Taylor Swift, Steely Dan, Isaac Hayes, Vince Gill, Alabama and hundreds of others. We auditioned the Eclipse on his PMC IB-1 monitors with Bryston 7B ST power amps and a Sadie v6 DAW. We utilized an analog remix master tape (1/4” at 15 ips) sourced from an analog recording played back on a Studer machine, so there were no converters ahead of the playback source. This was perfect because visual analysis via CEDAR Retouch revealed sonic information in the analog recording up past 30 kHz, clearly beyond the cutoff filters in a 44.1/48 kHz converter." "Now for the ultimate question: How does the Eclipse sound? My second question about the Eclipse (which was echoed by other engineers): ‘Why 384 kHz?’ Does the recording world really need 384 kHz sampling? Many of us have hashed and rehashed the reasons for higher sampling rates for years and yet there still seems to be no consensus, apart from ‘We’re stuck with a 44.1 kHz release format (CD) and most people are listening to MP3s. So do we need 180 kHz of bandwidth in our recording format?'" More » |
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