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I think I'd pass on this. Better luck next time...]]>Feb 2nd 2007 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/soldams-altium-fc500-studio-for-the-audio-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/soldams-altium-fc500-studio-for-the-audio-pros/Feb 2nd 2007 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/soldams-altium-fc500-studio-for-the-audio-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/soldams-altium-fc500-studio-for-the-audio-pros/
The guys must be joking. Anyway, good luck making the monster quiet.

"" It all comes packed in an Altium case said to efficiently keep the rig cool while keeping the noise down. Sound good? ""

I will not believe it until I see^Whear it.

My experience with helping people making a systems for studios is absolutely reversed. Quiet hard drive is put into N layers of sound absorbing materials. You can't have more than one of them, since there is no enough place inside and vibration from all of them would leak onto case surface making it "signing". Then you take slowest (passively cooled) graphic card which can take your load: (this is very important) because all fast 3D cards (especially nVidia ones!! - they are worst offenders) produce unbelievable amount of noise which leaks onto all buses. Regardless of number of filters installed on audio card, the leaks from video card could be very high and noticable. Power supply usually disconnected, cables prolonged and it itself is put into another room (noises are coming from frequency conversion elements and voltage transformer). Another rule (which seem to be completely disregarded in RTFA's system) is to remove everything unneeded: it is cheaper to reassemble the box than rerecord something due to unwanted snap/crack/etc.]]>Feb 2nd 2007 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/soldams-altium-fc500-studio-for-the-audio-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/soldams-altium-fc500-studio-for-the-audio-pros/
And Ihar, can you point me toward something online about the noise created by internal computer parts? I have an nVidia vid card (my gaming computer does double duty as my project mixing and mastering computer) and now I'm worried about noise in my projects... ]]>Feb 2nd 2007 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/soldams-altium-fc500-studio-for-the-audio-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/soldams-altium-fc500-studio-for-the-audio-pros/Feb 2nd 2007 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/soldams-altium-fc500-studio-for-the-audio-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/soldams-altium-fc500-studio-for-the-audio-pros/Feb 2nd 2007 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/soldams-altium-fc500-studio-for-the-audio-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/soldams-altium-fc500-studio-for-the-audio-pros/
And if the software is supported by PC, I don't care what platform it's on.

Neither scare me.]]>Feb 2nd 2007 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/soldams-altium-fc500-studio-for-the-audio-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/soldams-altium-fc500-studio-for-the-audio-pros/
In the system you can use some creative X-FI cards (a pair of them), several GB of RAM, 15,000 RPM hard drive, sound dampening material(put PC in a place so you don't hear the vibration and spinning sounds), decent monitor speakers, a high-quality condenser microphone, professional headphones, a midi keyboard, a secondary midi device, software, a pair of graphic cards with 2 outputs each, and 2 or 3 monitors. With this setup you don't just get a PC, you are ready to make music right away - perfect for those bedroom producers.

The Altium costs twice as much because they want you to buy really big monitors. and an expensive luxury graphic card.

In the end it comes down to what the setup can do for the person. If you're a beginner, this is total overkill. If you're a professional, you would buy music hardware and studio consoles (rack equipment) and this setup would not be good enough for you.]]>Feb 2nd 2007 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/soldams-altium-fc500-studio-for-the-audio-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/soldams-altium-fc500-studio-for-the-audio-pros/Feb 2nd 2007 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/soldams-altium-fc500-studio-for-the-audio-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/soldams-altium-fc500-studio-for-the-audio-pros/Feb 2nd 2007 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/soldams-altium-fc500-studio-for-the-audio-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/soldams-altium-fc500-studio-for-the-audio-pros/Feb 2nd 2007 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/soldams-altium-fc500-studio-for-the-audio-pros/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/02/soldams-altium-fc500-studio-for-the-audio-pros/
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Thomas]]>Feb 2nd 2007 6:06PM