Studer is mostly known for their famous analog tape machines, but they also build some great mixing consoles from the 70th to the 90th. Besides the highly regarded 169/269 and 961/962 portable mixers that are very sought after today, they build the large format 900 series as their flagship. The 900 series has superb sounding preamps and a very gentle 4-band parametric eq with additional hp/lp filters in the a-version and 3-semi-parametric eq-bands in the b-version. The sonic clarity of the mic (and line) preamp combined with super-musical and very flexible eq-filter section will give your mix the spatial deepness it needs to make the difference. Check the sound - Check the specs and build your own opinion! Compared to a Neve or SSL mixer, the studer 900 didn´t have all the nice routing and automation features the music studios needed for mixdown. This and the extremly high price might be one of the reasons, you don´t find too many consoles in music recording studios.

Another reason might be the difficulty to get the modules racked and
running as external 19" outboard. While the Danner and Sitral modules
only need 24V DC (and 48V DC for phantom power), the 900 series needs
five different voltages and a proper 0V ground.

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