ORBAN 5300 VS OMNIA ONE FM

[menotti1]

Is Orban shipping this unit? Will the Orban have about the same street price as the Omnia One?Should be an interesting shoot out.

 

[kevtronics]

Optimod-FM 5300 list price: $6490

Omnia One FM list price: $2995

 

[Henrimaximaal]

Hi, i would also love to know if the Orban 5300 is up for sale, and maybe a hint on who is selling this unit....

 

[menotti1]

Sorry for the post, i thought Orban had Introduced a new processor in the same price range as the Omnia One FM.

 

[DoctorWu]

That's quite a difference.

 

[The F Mister]

I don't know if Orban is working on a box to go against the Omnia One and DSP-X. But if they where I think they should change there pricelist dramaticly. Take the 2300, it has less features but is at the same price. So maybe they would bring a Orban 3300 to the market at about $3000 and drop the 2300 to lets say $2000 or so?

This could make the next option list:
DSP-Mini/Orban 2300 or 1100pci : ~$2000
DSP-X/Omnia One/Orban 3300? : ~$3000
DSP-Xtra/Omnia 5/Orban 5300 : ~$5000-7000

 

[fm-engineer]

The 5300 has been out for at least two years. It's a very nice multiband box for smaller stations. In fact, it's really the same as an 8300 or 8400 without the HD AES output. The only difference is it only has hard-bass clipping. The 8300 MX presets utilize more delay with medium-bass clipping like the 8400. I have installed three 5300's, and about five or six 8300's. Most are happy with either box.

Kevin, contact me off list. I have an Orban 2300 for sale. It has only been used in my shop facility on the old test bench. I would be surprised if it has more than ten or twenty hours on it. It would be nice for LPFM or NC use. It is much better than the 2200 and sounds much more like the old 8100.

 

[kevtronics]

It seems like Orban is pricing themselves out of the same marketplace they really helped to create. Even if you prefer the Optimod sound over anything else, when they're thousands higher than their nearest competitors, it suddenly becomes a lot easier to live with slightly substandard sound from another company's processor.

At least with the CRL product line, Orban/CRL did have something to offer in the below-$3000 range, however outdated the Amigo AM and Amigo FM might have been... but now with CRL gone, they suddenly have nothing to offer in the increasingly competitive budget processor range.

 

[TomT]

Indeed, Kevin.

For my (+200) market, the Omnia 3T provides a very competitive sound. I suspect the Omnia One would do the same.

Hard to justify paying almost twice as much for the Orban name plate.

 

[The F Mister]

I'm shore the One would beat the O3T, with 4 bands you can push it more.

Orban still has a good market with there 1100. They are going like hot buns. They should build a box around it with an mpx out and put it on the market for slightly more bucks.

 

[kevtronics]

Orban still has a good market with there 1100. They are going like hot buns. They should build a box around it with an mpx out and put it on the market for slightly more bucks.

They already have that... it's called the Optimod 2300. They just need to price it more competitively!

I'd love to see a new series of affordably priced audio processors from the CRL part of Orban/CRL. Since they bought out Autogram, CRL has taken some steps towards introducing new digital products, like this:

http://www.autogram-crl.com/products/dda8/

Unfortunately they killed the classic striped CRL logo... ...but otherwise the front panel styling is identical to the now-discontinued Amigo series.

 

[The F Mister]

I'm sorry but a 1100 is far from a 2300. The layout of the 1100 card is more like the 8500 than a 2300. So making a standalone of the 1100 pci card would bring more to the game than a 2300.