Enrique Martinez did a comparison between these 2, I vastly preffered machine 2 (Enrique preffered machine 1) Anyway here is the video, quite interesting and try to decide which you prefer before the reveal at the end. To me machine 1 was crisper but machine 2 had much better bottom end and more punch.
I prefer too machine 1, cause the same reason of Enrique.
The Nyquist nerds will be unpleased.
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I like Enrique a lot. Seems like a good fella.
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Interesting - Enrique added a comment to his video saying that after playing the samples back in his car he noticed way more bass on the Octatrack, I wonder if the summing the stereo to mono in the Digitakt is causing some cancellation.
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I always wonder if these comparisons have OT in 24bit for both flex playback and recordingā¦ DT is always 24 bit but OT is not by default unless you change those two settings. Also they were wrong about OT being 48K, itās 44.1ā¦
Anyway, just starting to watch nowā¦
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Ha, they corrected the sample rate misquoteā¦
He must have turned time stretch off on OT huh, was never mentionedā¦
-What I really want to know though is if the OT is on 24 bit play / 24 bit record???
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Very possible some phase issues muddied up the low end!
I guessed which was which quite easily tbh, that greasy smoothing on the OT is kinda distinctive.
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It was super easy to tell which machine was which.
I really like that Enrique dude, but heās done a few ātestsā regarding Audio quality and he really just shouldnāt
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Machine 2 sounded better to me also. 
Strangely, listening to this video on my bluetooth headphones, I couldnāt hear a damn difference. I chalked it up to the YouTube compression, but I guess others are hearing differences. 
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Difference in the top end noticeable on iPhone. Both sounded good. For sampling to OT I go through some pedals first to shape the sound. Find that helps for what Iām doing.
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Def a difference. I preferred the DT, BUTā¦
I would like to hear the original samples first, not on the machines. Around the board here Iāve heard it mentioned the DT adds to the sound. I would prefer uncolored sample playback.
Yeah and timestretch off, 24bit on the OT is a must.
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Thereās compression involved in Bluetooth as well so youāre doing a lossy conversion twice. Check on a decent system
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If I understand the comments correctly he didnāt know that it was 16bit by default.
Which would make this video 16bit OT vs 24bit DT.
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Damn, pretty weak test in that case. 24bit makes a surprising difference in the OT sound quality in my experience.
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āIts like removing the pillow from your earā. Thats what i thought too. I wonder if the filters are improved on the DT. Dont think its because of the compression.