VOVOX® Sound Conductors at Swiss National Radio DRS


Radio DRS Studio

At the Swiss National Radio station, SR DRS, the studios for radio dramas have recently been completely renovated and brought up to the latest technical standard. One of the many decisions that needed to be made concerned the cabling.

Franz Baumann, sound engineer and the project manager comments: "A studio colleague told me about VOVOX cables and presented me with test samples the following day. We then did an A/B test with our Station Voice. The set-up was very simple: A professional speaker read a text two times at equal distance from the microphone. The cable leading from the microphone to the break out box was the only thing changed. The effect was very impressive. Using the VOVOX cable, the voice had more depth and punch in the mix, and in general, the sound became more transparent. I sent the two recordings (standard cable / VOVOX cable) to my sound engineering colleagues as a blindfold test, in order to get their comments. Their feedback was very clear: The recording with VOVOX was preferred by 100% of the colleagues asked, and their descriptions of the sound quality were identical to my own experience. We decided to wire the 5.1 monitoring of our new radio drama control rooms and the corresponding studios with VOVOX cables without further delay."

The fact that a radio station (SR DRS) chose the non-shielded version VOVOX©link direct S is especially remarkable. Six months have gone by since the renewal of regular production, and the experience has been decidedly positive. "Everything works perfectly" is Franz Baumann's conclusion.

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