Reply to Getting The Best Sound Out of Your Traktor

hey guys, so recently i was watching this interview with Tony Andrews, the Owner of Funktion One speakers, probably the best live systems in the world. look em up if you don't know, anyway i was super stoked to see him using the echo audiofire sound card, as i kno that is a card Ean uses and highly recommends (would probly have one if i wasnt tsp user), and he made it pretty clear that is the best sound card there is haha.

But he also reveled some info i believe alot of people would be suprised to hear, mentioning how NI had asked them to review there sound card, as the legend of a company they are regarding high sound quality, and they were suprised to find not very good results, but only when in use with traktor, but when the soundcards were used with Fubar2000, the sound quality was very close to on par with the echo, but slightly less.

Then he mentioned how NI called them back 2 weeks later telling them how to fix it, step one, classic eq, the other eq settings add layers of processing and change the dynamics resulting in alot lower quality sound(atleast if your trying to retain full quality of a properly mastered dynamic 320,wav,flac ect.), second step, turn of auto limiter inside traktor.

also through a google search i found this article wich pretty much covers just that, but doesnt mention the limiter, and does mention the key lock (wich would make sense aswell)
http://www.native-instruments.com/kn...+Sound+Quality

if anyone wants to see the video of Tony Andrews talking about it heres the link, starts talking about it right at 39 mins

[ame="http://vimeo.com/31191130"]Lecture: Tony Andrews of Funktion One (Madrid 2011) on Vimeo[/ame]

ill also add i called NI to ask what the difference in the MK2 timecode vinyl was today, so i decided to mention that aswell and see if they recognized the issue and if they planned on adressing it at all, the employee immediately got deffesnsive and said hes not aloud to talk about that subject and he knows nothing about it... lol w/e.. just curious if im the only one a little bugged by this, lol, i never would have known if my buddy didnt show me this vid