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Millennia HV-3d & Avid 002
This is the main rig I used at Michigan State University for the majority of concerts including the Lansing Symphony, M.S.U. Symphony and Wind Symphony as well as a handful of other remote projects. The 8-channel Millennia HV-3d solid state highly-transparent preamps [25-bloody-lbs!] connected line-in to the Digidesign 002-rack firewire interface for ProTools.
Paired with an Apple Powerbook and external hard drive, this was a high-quality mobile rig [aside from the 25lbs!] that sounded great. Thrown in some good A/Ds and it’d be amazing.
As noted on the other Millennia’s:
However, I consider the Millennia sound much like the Emm Labs converters and other hi-fi product; very pristine accuracy in the high end. Sometimes I do not like it, and prefer a smoother response. For other applications its perfects. Just depends on the source material. As John La Grou wrote in this article:
Within these classifications exists a wide array of design techniques and specifications”.....“It suffices to say that each design approach, when done well, has a definite place in professional audio and can provide the engineer with subjective and objective solutions not achievable in the studio console.
