{"id":63810,"date":"2025-10-20T12:06:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/?p=63810"},"modified":"2025-10-20T13:01:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:01:54","slug":"inside-vsx-at-spitfire-eighteen-months-to-true-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/inside-vsx-at-spitfire-eighteen-months-to-true-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside VSX at Spitfire: Eighteen Months to True Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"produ-leaderboard-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;margin-bottom: 30px!important;\" id=\"produ-2229258926\"><script async=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/securepubads.g.doubleclick.net\/tag\/js\/gpt.js\"><\/script>\n<script> var googletag = googletag || {}; googletag.cmd = googletag.cmd || [];<\/script>\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-1309775311045-0\">\n  <script>\n\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() {\n\t\t\t\tgoogletag.defineSlot( '\/21927241144\/728x90-Leaderboard', [728,90], 'gpt-ad-1309775311045-0' )\n\t\t.addService(googletag.pubads());\n\t\t\t\twindow.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers = window.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers || {};\n\t\tconst timers                     = window.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers;\n\n\t\ttimers['gpt-ad-1309775311045-0'] = setTimeout( function () {\n\t\t\tconst id = 'gpt-ad-1309775311045-0';\n\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t}, 1000 );\n\n\t\tif ( typeof window.advadsGamHasEmptySlotListener === 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\tgoogletag.pubads().addEventListener( 'slotRequested', function ( ev ) {\n\t\t\t\tconst id = ev.slot.getSlotElementId();\n\t\t\t\tif ( typeof timers[id] === 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\t\t\treturn;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tclearTimeout( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\ttimers[id] = setTimeout( function () {\n\t\t\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t}, 2500 );\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\tgoogletag.pubads().addEventListener( 'slotResponseReceived', function ( ev ) {\n\t\t\t\tconst id = ev.slot.getSlotElementId();\n\t\t\t\tif ( typeof timers[id] !== 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\t\t\tclearTimeout( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tif ( ! ev.slot.getResponseInformation() ) {\n\t\t\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\twindow.advadsGamHasEmptySlotListener = true;\n\t\t}\n\n\t\tgoogletag.enableServices();\n\t\tgoogletag.display( 'gpt-ad-1309775311045-0' );\n\t} );\n  <\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen youtube\">\n<div class=\"container-lazyload preview-lazyload container-youtube js-lazyload--not-loaded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zDBgTEcwSB8\" class=\"lazy-load-youtube preview-lazyload preview-youtube\" data-video-title=\"It Took 18 Months to Get THIS Sound Right: Inside the VSX Spitfire Studio\" title=\"Play video &quot;It Took 18 Months to Get THIS Sound Right: Inside the VSX Spitfire Studio&quot;\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zDBgTEcwSB8<\/a><noscript>Video can&#8217;t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zDBgTEcwSB8\" title=\"It Took 18 Months to Get THIS Sound Right: Inside the VSX Spitfire Studio\">It Took 18 Months to Get THIS Sound Right: Inside the VSX Spitfire Studio (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zDBgTEcwSB8)<\/a><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Visit Steven Slate Audio: <a href=\"https:\/\/stevenslateaudio.com\/en\/vsx\">https:\/\/stevenslateaudio.com\/en\/vsx<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\">I have known about <a href=\"https:\/\/sweetwater.sjv.io\/6ejNxN\">Steven Slate\u2019s VSX<\/a> concept for a while, thanks to my friend Matt Lange. The promise is simple to say and very hard to deliver, to give\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"font-[700]\">producers, engineers, mixers, musicians and all music makers and creators<\/span><span class=\"\">\u00a0a monitoring chain that truly translates anywhere. Not just close, but accurate. After living with it in my own\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"font-[700]\">Spitfire Studios Los Angeles<\/span><span class=\"\">\u00a0rooms and pushing it to extremes, I can tell you this took eighteen months to get right, not a day, not a week, not a quick tune up, but eighteen months of testing, retesting and refining until mixes I know by heart behaved exactly as they should across speakers, headphones and every real world check imaginable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<h3><span class=\"\">Why translation breaks most mixes<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">We all know the feeling. A mix sounds fantastic in your room, everything seems tight and polished, then you take it out into the world, to the car, another room, a friend\u2019s studio, a pair of earbuds or a Bluetooth speaker, and suddenly it falls apart. The low end shifts, the vocal jumps out or disappears, and all that hard work just does not translate.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">The real culprit is the complex interaction between your speakers and your room, especially in the low end. Even well treated spaces struggle with this. VSX tackles that problem at the source, capturing great rooms, tuning the speakers to be flat and accurate, and then modelling those spaces so precisely that you can hear them through dedicated headphones without all the chaos of room acoustics.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-63812 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warren-room-in-gui-1760038226280-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1003\" height=\"621\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warren-room-in-gui-1760038226280-scaled.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warren-room-in-gui-1760038226280-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warren-room-in-gui-1760038226280-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warren-room-in-gui-1760038226280-1536x951.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warren-room-in-gui-1760038226280-2048x1268.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warren-room-in-gui-1760038226280-80x50.jpg 80w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warren-room-in-gui-1760038226280-320x198.jpg 320w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warren-room-in-gui-1760038226280-275x170.jpg 275w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warren-room-in-gui-1760038226280-242x150.jpg 242w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warren-room-in-gui-1760038226280-770x477.jpg 770w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warren-room-in-gui-1760038226280-40x25.jpg 40w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warren-room-in-gui-1760038226280-160x99.jpg 160w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warren-room-in-gui-1760038226280-20x12.jpg 20w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warren-room-in-gui-1760038226280-640x396.jpg 640w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warren-room-in-gui-1760038226280-979x606.jpg 979w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warren-room-in-gui-1760038226280-549x340.jpg 549w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warren-room-in-gui-1760038226280-16x10.jpg 16w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warren-room-in-gui-1760038226280-485x300.jpg 485w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warren-room-in-gui-1760038226280-15x9.jpg 15w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warren-room-in-gui-1760038226280-385x238.jpg 385w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/warren-room-in-gui-1760038226280-1540x953.jpg 1540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1003px) 100vw, 1003px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><span class=\"\">The Spitfire rooms, captured<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">We tested VSX inside my\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"font-[700]\">Spitfire Studios Los Angeles<\/span><span class=\"\">\u00a0control rooms, designed by Jay Kaufman. There are two identical rooms, each built for total accuracy, nothing hyped, nothing missing, so every mix decision feels honest and effortless.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"font-[700]\">Steven Slate actually rented one of these rooms to create and develop his VSX headphones, while the other served as my personal mix room.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">What makes this story truly unique is that we tested the VSX system in the actual Spitfire room, using the real speakers as our reference point. We sat in the sweet spot, switched between the headphones and the monitors, and compared the experience directly. Every tweak, every refinement, every update to the software and headphone tuning was checked against the sound of the real room until it matched perfectly.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">The main Spitfire setup features my trusted monitoring chain,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"font-[700]\">Wayne Jones mains<\/span><span class=\"\">\u00a0for deep, powerful low end,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"font-[700]\">Genelec 8351s<\/span><span class=\"\">\u00a0for balance, precision and that astonishingly detailed stereo image, and\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"font-[700]\">Kali LP-6s<\/span><span class=\"\">\u00a0for critical midrange checks.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">The Wayne Jones monitors are simply phenomenal, incredible tracking speakers and the perfect playback system when you want to blow people away, whether that is clients, artists or the occasional A&amp;R rep who needs to feel the bass in their chest. They deliver effortless power and depth, yet stay tight and controlled no matter how hard you push them.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">The Genelecs are where I spend the vast majority of my mixing time, sitting right at the heart of my workflow. They provide the kind of neutral transparency that exposes even the smallest mix choices, beautifully revealing without ever feeling fatiguing, and when Steven and his team modelled them for VSX, the accuracy was genuinely startling.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">The Kalis, on the other hand, are great sounding speakers that give me a real world view of how most people are working. A big part of my job is a responsibility to all of you who watch our content, so I need to know what music sounds like on the kinds of systems most creators, producers and musicians actually use day to day, not just in high end studio environments. That perspective keeps me grounded, and it is why having the Kalis faithfully recreated inside VSX was so important.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">When Slate\u2019s team captured Spitfire, they worked side by side with me across both rooms to make sure every reflection, nuance and sonic fingerprint was modelled perfectly. These are spaces and speakers I know as well as my own voice, so when the VSX version of the 8351s sounded and felt identical, it was a genuine breakthrough moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">There was even a point during testing where I forgot I was wearing headphones, I turned my head expecting the soundstage to stay in the room, which is the highest compliment I can give any virtual monitoring system, it felt like I was sitting right there between the Genelecs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<h3><span class=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63816 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-All-Rooms.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-All-Rooms.png 1080w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-All-Rooms-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-All-Rooms-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-All-Rooms-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-All-Rooms-80x45.png 80w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-All-Rooms-320x180.png 320w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-All-Rooms-302x170.png 302w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-All-Rooms-267x150.png 267w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-All-Rooms-770x433.png 770w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-All-Rooms-40x23.png 40w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-All-Rooms-160x90.png 160w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-All-Rooms-20x11.png 20w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-All-Rooms-640x360.png 640w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-All-Rooms-1077x606.png 1077w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-All-Rooms-604x340.png 604w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-All-Rooms-18x10.png 18w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-All-Rooms-533x300.png 533w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-All-Rooms-16x9.png 16w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-All-Rooms-385x217.png 385w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-All-Rooms-1540x866.png 1540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span class=\"\">Eighteen months, not a day<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">Many talented teams have attempted room modelling projects, and some have achieved impressive results in remarkably short time frames. I have even had rooms modelled myself in the past, often over a day or two of careful measurement and capture, and those approaches can sound good and absolutely have their place.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">What makes\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sweetwater.sjv.io\/6ejNxN\"><span class=\"font-[700]\">Slate\u2019s VSX Spitfire Studios Los Angeles<\/span><\/a><span class=\"\">\u00a0different is the sheer dedication behind it.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"font-[700]\">Steven Slate<\/span><span class=\"\">personally spent\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"font-[700]\">eighteen months<\/span><span class=\"\">\u00a0refining every aspect, the room modelling, the software algorithms, the headphone voicing and the overall translation. There was a team supporting the process of course, but it was Steven himself in the room, day after day, making adjustments, running tests and chasing perfection. He came back time and again, comparing and recalibrating until the VSX system did not just sound like the room, it felt like it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">About a year in, it was already very close, six months later it was closer still, and only in the most recent passes did we finally reach the point where I could switch between the real speakers and the VSX model and stay completely focused on the music rather than the technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">This was not a one and done capture, it was patience, discipline and hundreds of incremental refinements. That is why the result feels natural rather than processed, and why transients, low end and stereo depth sit exactly where they should, without that cloudy halo you sometimes hear in attempts at room modelling.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<h3><span class=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-63813 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vsx-sa-pods-gui-1749670038067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"795\" height=\"492\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vsx-sa-pods-gui-1749670038067.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vsx-sa-pods-gui-1749670038067-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vsx-sa-pods-gui-1749670038067-768x476.jpg 768w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vsx-sa-pods-gui-1749670038067-80x50.jpg 80w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vsx-sa-pods-gui-1749670038067-320x198.jpg 320w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vsx-sa-pods-gui-1749670038067-275x170.jpg 275w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vsx-sa-pods-gui-1749670038067-242x150.jpg 242w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vsx-sa-pods-gui-1749670038067-770x477.jpg 770w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vsx-sa-pods-gui-1749670038067-40x25.jpg 40w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vsx-sa-pods-gui-1749670038067-160x99.jpg 160w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vsx-sa-pods-gui-1749670038067-20x12.jpg 20w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vsx-sa-pods-gui-1749670038067-640x396.jpg 640w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vsx-sa-pods-gui-1749670038067-979x606.jpg 979w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vsx-sa-pods-gui-1749670038067-549x340.jpg 549w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vsx-sa-pods-gui-1749670038067-16x10.jpg 16w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vsx-sa-pods-gui-1749670038067-485x300.jpg 485w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vsx-sa-pods-gui-1749670038067-15x9.jpg 15w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/vsx-sa-pods-gui-1749670038067-385x238.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\" \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span class=\"\">The checks that make it bulletproof<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">Accuracy is not just about one beautiful control room, it is about confidence across all the places people actually listen. VSX gives you a range of cross checks, studio mains and nearfields, club systems, boom boxes, cars, consumer headphones and yes, Apple earbuds. Alan Meyerson once called them the new Auratones for a reason. When a mix holds up in the pro rooms and on those buds, you can print with a smile.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<h3><span class=\"\">Headphones that serve the models<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">The headphone in VSX is the vehicle, not the star, and it needs to disappear and let the space speak. Slate landed on beryllium drivers for their low distortion, clean extension and consistent bottom end right down to sub territory. The set is lightweight and comfortable, which really matters when you are deep in detail work. The headphone design was refined in parallel with the room itself, both sides improving together until they behaved as one complete system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<h3><span class=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-63814 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX.png 1080w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-80x45.png 80w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-320x180.png 320w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-302x170.png 302w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-267x150.png 267w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-770x433.png 770w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-40x23.png 40w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-160x90.png 160w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-20x11.png 20w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-640x360.png 640w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-1077x606.png 1077w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-604x340.png 604w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-18x10.png 18w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-533x300.png 533w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-16x9.png 16w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-385x217.png 385w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSX-1540x866.png 1540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span class=\"\">The proof, on music<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">To test, I used sections I know inside out, including the drum outro from The Fray\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\">How To Save A Life<\/span><span class=\"\">. We went back and forth between the room\u2019s speakers and the VSX model at sensible listening levels, and the imaging, punch and decay behaviour lined up so closely that I could make decisions without second guessing. We also pulled up a pair of Kali LP-6 nearfields, and moving between the real Kalis and their model kept the same balances and tone shape, that is what translation looks like in practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<h3><span class=\"\">What this changes for daily work<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">I have always loved doing fine detail on headphones, then confirming on speakers, and VSX really tightens that loop. You can do detail and room checks in the same place, and if a mix works across several accurate virtual rooms and secondary systems inside VSX, it is going to work in the real world. That means fewer dreaded car test surprises and fewer endless round trips between spaces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<h3><span class=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-63815 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSXHeadphonesInternalComponents.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1006\" height=\"566\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSXHeadphonesInternalComponents.webp 1920w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSXHeadphonesInternalComponents-1080x608.webp 1080w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSXHeadphonesInternalComponents-150x84.webp 150w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSXHeadphonesInternalComponents-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSXHeadphonesInternalComponents-1536x864.webp 1536w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSXHeadphonesInternalComponents-80x45.webp 80w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSXHeadphonesInternalComponents-320x180.webp 320w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSXHeadphonesInternalComponents-302x170.webp 302w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSXHeadphonesInternalComponents-267x150.webp 267w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSXHeadphonesInternalComponents-770x433.webp 770w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSXHeadphonesInternalComponents-40x23.webp 40w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSXHeadphonesInternalComponents-160x90.webp 160w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSXHeadphonesInternalComponents-20x11.webp 20w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSXHeadphonesInternalComponents-640x360.webp 640w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSXHeadphonesInternalComponents-1077x606.webp 1077w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSXHeadphonesInternalComponents-604x340.webp 604w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSXHeadphonesInternalComponents-18x10.webp 18w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSXHeadphonesInternalComponents-533x300.webp 533w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSXHeadphonesInternalComponents-16x9.webp 16w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSXHeadphonesInternalComponents-385x217.webp 385w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VSXHeadphonesInternalComponents-1540x866.webp 1540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1006px) 100vw, 1006px\" \/><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span class=\"\">Why I trust it<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">Trust came from time, we did not stop at almost, we kept going until it was right. Many products are launched after a single capture session and a burst of marketing, but this was the opposite, eighteen months, multiple full iterations and the kind of honesty that keeps you pushing until it is perfect. That is why the models do not feel like speakers with reverb glued on top, they feel like real speakers in a real room.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<h3><span class=\"\">Feeling grateful<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\">I am constantly reminded how lucky I am to do what I do. People often stop me on the street to say wonderful things about the educational work we do, and it always makes me feel so blessed to know we are making a difference. Over the past week, since the release of my Spitfire Studios room on VSX, I have had people telling me they are using it every day, which is just amazing. It goes to show how incredible Steven\u2019s work has been on this project, and just how great the room sounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<h3><span class=\"\">Final thoughts<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main__content\" data-test-id=\"publishing-text-block\">\n<p><span class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sweetwater.sjv.io\/6ejNxN\">VSX<\/a> in my\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"font-[700]\">two identical Spitfire Studios Los Angeles<\/span><span class=\"\">\u00a0rooms is the closest I have ever heard a virtual system get to the real thing. The reason is not a trick or a buzzword, it is the work, eighteen months of it. If you care about mixes that translate, that is the difference that matters.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zDBgTEcwSB8Video can&#8217;t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: It Took 18 Months to Get THIS Sound Right: Inside the VSX Spitfire Studio (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zDBgTEcwSB8) Visit Steven Slate Audio: https:\/\/stevenslateaudio.com\/en\/vsx I have known about Steven Slate\u2019s VSX concept for a while, thanks to my friend Matt Lange. 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