<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi again Stéphane I think you really answer your own question here.  And its a point I like to try and drive home as well.  The old panel can sound good... but it does have a different character yes ?..  Point being you dont need to rely on this or that or whatever process to get a soundboard that sounds <<good>>.  You DO need different processes to acheive certain acoustical results.  So yes...the CC board will take on a character of its own, and the old board with the tomatoes squeezed out of it will take on its own character, and yet another character if re-ribbed... etc etc etc. <<Good....>>  is in the ear of the beholder.  The rest is simply different colours. Some like purple, some dont. Luckily we have all these other colours to choose from. Nice posting by the way. You always write so descriptively... grin.. must a French thing :) Cheers RicB <pre>But then, as a friend of mine pointed out, in old flat boards, there must not be that much compression left in the panel. Yet, some do sound very good (in my world at least). This tends to cast doubt on what I just said. As always, my general feeling is that things are not quite simple. Please forgive my unauthorized intervention, meant only to raise interesting comments. Best regards. Stéphane Collin. </pre> </body> </html>