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engmix
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Not to derail this thread, but were you ever able to A/B between the x-rack and 500 series? I wonder if the different power supply etc had an effect making the x-rack sound better?
When browsing the used gear market I'll see x-rack gear listed, and with the total recall at times find myself getting tempted. I'm just paranoid about the support from ssl just in case, or the lack there of?
It's really tragic how SSL treated the X-rack. It was superior to 500 series in every way - from the power supply, to the spacing (4 spaces high instead of 3 so knobs are spaced better) to form factor and being able to fit stereo modules in a single space, to the total recall and even copying settings other modules if you have more of the same modules (easy to do stereo or even 5 channel matching if you have the modules).
SSL always kinda treated it like a red headed step child. They never released stereo versions of the black modules, they never released a module of just the cut filters, stubbornly refusing it no matter how much users begged for it because having the cut filters on their pres were the only thing selling their pres for the x-rack.
Sorry for venting lol...Every time I hear a mention of the x-rack, it still annoys the hell out of me how it was superior to 500 series and SSL insisted on crashing and burning it like it owed them money.
