What does mastering mean?

“Whether Dan Clark Audio Stealth or Expanse, both require a high-end headphone amplifier with plenty of power like the SPL Phonitor.” Mastering with headphones is gaining more and more importance. At the online platform positive-feedback you can find an interesting article about mastering. Dirk Sommer (Hifistatement) and Casten Hicking (audioNEXT) visited mastering engineer Christoph Stickel […]
SPL User Story: Justin Gray Music

Within this SPL User Story we want to introduce you to Justin Gray. Justin is music composer & producer at Synthesis Sound, mastering engineer at Immersive Mastering and professor of music at the Humber College Lakeshore Campus in Toronto, Canada. Justin is working in Dolby Atmos and Sony 360 “day in and day out”, on […]
SPL X-mas Give-Away 2022

This year the SPL X-mas Give-Away is all about the SPL Phonitor Matrix. With the Phonitor Matrix you can not only create perfect mixes on headphones. It allows you to experience music as played back from speakers. Among all SPL Community News subscribers we are giving away three SPL headphone amplifiers with Phonitor Matrix: an SPL […]
Phonitor 2 @ KOPFHOERER.DE

“Flawless manufacturing, innovative technology, powerful performance and outstanding sound: the SPL Phonitor 2 is an absolutely recommendable partner for headphones at reference-level .” The online magazine kopfhoerer.de tested our Phonitor 2 in August of this year and subsequently declared it the “best headphone amplifier”, awarding it five out of five stars and the top score of […]
Anton van den Aarssen

Experience the Phonitor Matrix!

One of the unique features of SPL headphone amplifiers is the SPL Phonitor Matrix. It enables mixing and mastering engineers to create perfect mixes on headphones, which will translate perfectly to all types of stereo speaker systems. But the Phonitor Matrix is not only designed for professional use in the studio. It also enables the hifi […]
SPL X-mas Give-Away 2021 – Experience the Phonitor Matrix!

This year the SPL X-mas Give-Away is all about the SPL Phonitor Matrix. With the Phonitor Matrix you can not only create perfect mixes on headphones. It allows you to experience music as played back from speakers. Among all SPL Community News subscribers we are giving away three SPL headphone amplifiers with Phonitor Matrix: an SPL […]
SPL equips mastering rooms of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk with audio technology for highest demands.

Within the scope of this project, three utility rooms ought to be converted into high-quality and flexible sound processing and mastering rooms. The analog and digital processing of analog and digital sources, by different employees, demands a special requirement from these rooms and the equipment. Highest audio quality and intuitive workflow are often contrary to […]
This is how the SPL Phonitor Matrix sounds

You’ve heard of the SPL Phonitor Matrix and want to know how it sounds? Put on your headphones and watch this video! The video explains the Phonitor Matrix and how it actually works. It explains the parameter crossfeed and the speaker angle in the context of the interaural time- and level difference. But the best […]
Phonitor 2 @ hardwaremax

No doubt, the SPL Phonitor 2 not only satisfied all our requirements, but greatly exceeded them.