After adopting the MC Pro in early 2011, long-term user and reviewer provides an extensive review of our most recent studio processor NOVA.
The review is available in full the latest issue of Studio Magazin in German, which you can purchase and download on the magazine website.
For non-german readers, please find a few excepts of the review below.
About the Optimizer
The Trinnov Optimizer process is much more sophisticated than its competitors in this respect, but this should not encourage us to work on difficult spaces with Trinnov Nova. As already mentioned, the quality of the correction increases significantly if fundamental room acoustic problems have previously been eliminated using suitable mechanical means.
Due to the increased temporal precision (group delay, phase response), the stereo stage is arranged in an outstanding way. All positions in the stereo image gain in sharpness and the difference or transition between an outstanding and a mediocre production becomes more precise from an 'area' to a clear 'line'. With this correction, I know and hear exactly when I cross this line in a positive sense - a really wonderful relief when assessing the quality of my own work. If suddenly many productions with a 'sophisticated' Trinnov correction sound worse and less lively, then it is because they are worse and less lively.
In the end, the interaction of spectral balance and temporal precision is the secret to an absolutely secure basis for decision-making. I am sure that in principle every listening situation can be improved with the optimizer process, even at the expense of a converter section in the signal path. In the case of the Trinnov Nova is based on ESS Saber chip technology.
Conclusion about NOVA
Considering the integration of full monitor-controller functionality, which can be operated cost-neutrally via an iPhone or iPad, the price for such a professional audio solution becomes more reasonable. The hardware remote control, which significantly increases the comfort of operation, costs an additional approximately €800 plus VAT.
However, the actual core of the system, aside from the useful extras, is the Optimizer process. I can promise you an extraordinary listening experience.
This precision is highly addictive: Once you've heard it, you won't want to go back!"