Silver Bullet vs. Summing Box
Have you ever been curious how the Silver Bullet stacks up against a summing box? In the following example the Silver Bullet goes head to head with a reputable 32-channel summing box. We included an in-the-box (ITB) digital mix of the song as well. Four clips are presented in an ABX comparison:
- 2-bus into Silver Bullet
- 2-bus into 2 channels of Summing Box
- 16 channel stems summed through Summing Box
- ITB digital mix
The source tracks were recorded and mixed by Tony Marrison, excerpted from the song "Al Gharb" from the album "Lost In Spice: Special Edition" by Kamel Nitrate. The files are 24-bit, 44.1k and were RMS level matched as best as possible. The Silver Bullet was set to A>N. The Summing Box was set up with both summing amp gain boost, and output transformer options engaged.
Instructions:
- Wait for audio files to buffer.
- Click "Start ABX" in the player to begin playing Clip X. The player randomly chooses one of the four clips to play for you.
- Click "Choose" to select which clip you think you just listened to. You may play each clip as many times as you'd like.
- Click "Next X" to start playing the next random clip.
- Click "Choose" and "Next X" for additional rounds of listening to increase the statistical certainty that your results are not blind luck.
- Click "See Results" to stop and see the result of your test.
- Click "Reset" to start the test over.
Can you hear a difference?