What’s the consensus here with MA-1? Do you all trust Neumann, this product and their level of service? Watching from the sidelines, it seems less reliable and recommended than GLM with the caveat that it’s a newer system.
While heartening to see an update, I can’t help but feel dismayed this is an additional charge where GLM has the functions included for the roughly equivalent base price.
Difficult to answer. I trust Neumann to be an excellent hardware manufacturer with good people. But it seems they have underestimated the software side. So, on the one hand it is a good sign they made new software versions just because i told them about bugs - this happened a few times already. On the other hand i think, why do i have to be the one who sees the bugs and why aren't they able to test everything thoroughly themselves?
Also, they tried building a support team (external, guess), but they don't have the same level of expertise as the core guys.
All in all, afaik it is still a small team with limited ressources.
I have always found a solution to work around the quirks, or they fixed it. So while sometimes frustrating, it has been ok for me, because - last point - i trust the end results to be as good as it gets.
I never tried Genelec/GLM.