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Aphex 2020 mkIII for web or... TV?

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richard.vanderveen

Ik can get my hands on a cheap full option Aphex 2020mkIII. I could use it for our TV channel, headphone monitoring or on one of our internet streams.

Opportunity or walk away and don't look back?
 
How cheap? You may could find a good preset on it for the stream. One that is more of a good leveler. Surely it has a Compellor like preset.
 
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Sent one back to Aphex for repair a few months ago. They said parts were no longer available. I dont know what parts. You may want to think about this before you sink that much money into it.
It did work good till it quit.
 
Just get yourself a used Compellor (unless you already own one of these beasts). if you want to go with something better, try Stereo Tool if you want to go software-based. And, if you don't, try a Ariene Sequel. I have an Ariene on a Classic Hits station and LOVE IT. It's almost like listening to P1, but it never over-drives and will do some make-up gain. Keep in mind that, whatever you do, you really don't want much if any clipping. That aggravates your codec and makes the digital compression MUCH more noticeable. With the Classic Hits station's stream, we are only running 32k ACC+, but it sounds excellent. It's sister station, running country, has a 8300 that we are using the outputs to stream. Although the 8300 is a bit more consistent and certainly louder, the digital grunge is more prevalent too.
 
I had one on my deep oldies webstream. It was OK and I even had one of the Aphex guys listen and help me tweak it while listening online. I ended up replacing it with an Optimod 6200 DAB and I got nothing but compliments about how "amazing" the sound of the station had become. I still have an old MKI that has the stereo generator and digital cards in it that I was using for an emergency processor when I had somebody lose a box. The Omnia One has taken over that duty since it can be flashed for any use.

I'd think long and hard before going with it. I saw a used Omnia One listed for $1600 and you can always flip it to a different use if you abandon its use for the web.
 
If you could get it for $500 that would be a decent deal. Problem is, as others have said, the parts are not available anymore and they're expensive to fix with the parts that still are available. Something as simple as bypassing the pre-emphasis requires a whole separate card (gee guys, a switch somewhere wouldn't do?) where you can do it in software on any modern processor.

Had one on the WERS 128k stream, with the flat output card. Assuming nothing has changed in the past 2 years it's still on there. Sounded pretty good flat, they fell apart on the HF limiting anyway. All the highs turned to mush and it got too dense, no matter how you adjusted it, compared to the newer Omnias, Orbans and Wheatstones that are out there. Last I knew, WERS has the original Ariane in front of it. I opened the "window" on the wideband AGC pretty far to let the Ariane do most of the leveling.

For the FM and HD, they had limitless amounts of low end. They did sound good during the urban programming. With the regular daytime AAA format, there was no way to get the required top 10 market loudness out of them without the density going WAY up. Did the best I could with the tools available, but with those boxes you were stuck with the sonic palette at hand.
 
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