Thank you DJ V. for the thorough response!
Of course I know what you say to be true. I just spent the last 2 years in Maui running sound at a club and our system was not super sonically exceptional. It’s just that while it was only filled with Mackie, you could notice quite a difference with the quality of DJ input.
For example one professional had tracks that sounded exceptional and I told him it sounded like they were mastered. He said that they were!
I don’t think most people will or even can notice the difference in a conscious way, but I do believe there’s a fatigue and a subconscious awareness that ‘normal people’ notice and it directly affects their mood.
But you’re right that 44.1k/24bit is beyond material that I’ll likely use (except for my own production) in venues I’ll likely have access to.
(We have a lot of clubs in he US — a lot of mediocre ones.)
The Bose L1’s do sound really good for small rooms and I have a nice DI box for them fed by the Duet. Maybe my Mixtrack is all I need. It just doesn’t have enough buttons!
What would be a controller sans audio interface that would be a good upgrade to the Mixtrack 2? Mixtrack 3?!
(Tracktor DJ for my iPhone6 has actually been a lot of fun! Maybe I’ll figure out how to implement oscTouch. I just don’t like having so many devices and the phone can be set down in an odd place wife easily.)
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