Thank you for the detailed video. If you were starting out mastering with a "restricted" budget, would you go kii three + some Analog gear or invest everything in the Kii Three BXT and stay in the box ? Im talking mastering genres like EDM and Pop/Hip Hop
Invest in your room acoustic treatment and your speakers. This is priority no.1. With the plugins nowadays you can get a good result in the box. There is no need to go out of the box until you have invested in your room and speakers. Next priority is a good converter. AD/DA conversion has to be on a professional level, then you can invest in outboard gear.
Thank you for the quick answer. Here is the thing, I want to open a mastering studio, and I have at my disposal around 35k $ for speakers and gear, the room acoustics has its own budget. I was wondering if investing 20k in kii three and 15k in analog equipment + converters was better than getting the whole bxt setup and staying in the box. Im a believer in digital processing but analog chain is a strong marketing point for getting clients, in my country at least. Since where I live I can't demo any gear or speaker, my question is kii three + analog gear and later upgrade BXT? or BXT in the box and later get analog gear ? Thank you very much@@moogmastering
Starting with Kii Three + analog outboard gear is a good choice assumed you have a well treated room and good converters. You can upgrade to the BXT at any time later.
I would start with sickest possible acoustic design. My speakers costs 12K Euro, but acoustic 20K Euros. Acoustic is a key to good sounding mixes or masters.
Are you really sure they work better for mix and mastering work with the Extension in your room? When I tested the Extension System they were of course amazing but also felt like a huge wall of sound and very wide, even in the lows. That might be too much for some rooms. Even tho at lower volumes they naturally compensated more for the fletcher munson curve. But I tested them in a big room. And I have to add I was hugely impressed by the Kii Seven Awesome Channel bwt! Cheers Tom
I did measurements with and without BXT, but these were individual settings influenced among other things by my room. In my room the measurements improved with the BXT and AVAAs. I am satisfied with my current setup.
thx for the nice review
Wow ! congratz on this purchase. I bet they sounds amazing. I personally prefer flush mounting systems.
Great review ! I’m planning to buy the threes solo. How’s kii’s ‘in house’ conversion ? Should I bother with a separate dac for itb work ? Thanks
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Thanks for your feedback, you don't need to worry, the conversion is good.👌
Thanks for the video!
Thank you for the detailed video. If you were starting out mastering with a "restricted" budget, would you go kii three + some Analog gear or invest everything in the Kii Three BXT and stay in the box ? Im talking mastering genres like EDM and Pop/Hip Hop
Invest in your room acoustic treatment and your speakers. This is priority no.1. With the plugins nowadays you can get a good result in the box. There is no need to go out of the box until you have invested in your room and speakers. Next priority is a good converter. AD/DA conversion has to be on a professional level, then you can invest in outboard gear.
Thank you for the quick answer. Here is the thing, I want to open a mastering studio, and I have at my disposal around 35k $ for speakers and gear, the room acoustics has its own budget. I was wondering if investing 20k in kii three and 15k in analog equipment + converters was better than getting the whole bxt setup and staying in the box. Im a believer in digital processing but analog chain is a strong marketing point for getting clients, in my country at least. Since where I live I can't demo any gear or speaker, my question is kii three + analog gear and later upgrade BXT? or BXT in the box and later get analog gear ? Thank you very much@@moogmastering
Starting with Kii Three + analog outboard gear is a good choice assumed you have a well treated room and good converters. You can upgrade to the BXT at any time later.
Thank you !@@moogmastering
I would start with sickest possible acoustic design. My speakers costs 12K Euro, but acoustic 20K Euros. Acoustic is a key to good sounding mixes or masters.
Are you really sure they work better for mix and mastering work with the Extension in your room? When I tested the Extension System they were of course amazing but also felt like a huge wall of sound and very wide, even in the lows. That might be too much for some rooms. Even tho at lower volumes they naturally compensated more for the fletcher munson curve. But I tested them in a big room. And I have to add I was hugely impressed by the Kii Seven
Awesome Channel bwt! Cheers Tom
i would welcome measurement with and without bxt
I did measurements with and without BXT, but these were individual settings influenced among other things by my room. In my room the measurements improved with the BXT and AVAAs. I am satisfied with my current setup.
It's quite expensive for what it can do. JBL is much cheaper and can easily do that much.