Upgrading your audio studio: in this economy, in this industry is upgrading now brave or crazy? These pros say it's necessity

Post, August, 2002 by David John Farinella

The pair of System 5 consoles (which were installed along with a DSP Postation II) installed with an eye toward the future. "We wanted to get the technology to where we were ready for what was coming down the pipe with HD and 5.1 and eventually 7.1. We wanted to be prepared," Coken says. The boards were chosen for the flexibility they provided.

"Our clientele doesn't know right out of the gate where we're going or what we're doing, and to have a console that's not very flexible limits what we can do and what we can't do," he says. "One minute you're mixing stereo, the next you're mixing in surround and the next they want foreign versions. With the Euphonix System 5 you can just hit a button and all that happens."