

Which Computer To Choose? That Is The Question Other than the upgrade to Dolby Atmos, everything else was pretty well OK.


I did this by setting up ‘Watches’ on eBay and then waiting until the speakers I wanted, another pair of TB1s for the side surrounds and 2 pairs of DB1s for the height channels came up at a price I was happy to pay. I had already made the decision to expand my monitoring to a 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos and had been acquiring more secondhand PMCs to match my existing 5.1 system. I had a 5.1 monitoring system made up from 3 PMC LB1s across the front and a pair of PMC TB1s for the surrounds, all bought secondhand giving me a real bang-for-my-buck. Looking around the studio, most of the other gear is still serves me well. The first consideration was to take a look at what I would need my studio to do over the next 3 to 5 years, to help inform what I would need to replace my trusty cheese-grater. Even though in 2016 I had upgraded my graphics card, added an SSD and in early 2019, upgraded the processors, there was no doubt that by the middle of 2020, my Mac Pro cheese-grater was no longer performing as well as I needed and the time had come to replace it, but what with?
