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Supporting their 9th studio album, Death Magnetic, Metallica is hitting arenas across the US and Canada in a monster sized in-the-round production which includes Apogee X-Series converters for both A/D and D/A conversion. Building the production from head to toe, Thunder Audio of Taylor, MI chose an all digital drive system setup for unprecedented sound quality with eight Apogee converters for 64 channels of I/O. “When designing this system we had a criteria set forth for achieving the highest quality in uncompromised audio,” states Thomas Hejnicki, Project Manager for Thunder Audio. “Based upon reputation and experience, we needed to look no further than Apogee for our AD/DA solution. In fact, we tried. With Apogee as our reference; we found no acceptable alternative.” Four Apogee AD-16X converters are placed shortly after the FOH console as the point of entry into the all digital path which includes LightViper fiber optic cabling routing towards the Meyer line arrays. Completing the path, four DA-16X converters sit before the line arrays as the last component in the chain ensuring the best conversion blasting out to thousands of fans. With the combination of the LightViper fiber optic system, Meyer loudspeakers, and of course Apogee converters, Thunder Audio has created one of the most bone-chilling sound reinforcement systems on the road to date. With the power, clarity and smoothness that was previously unknown, it simply sounds amazing. Metallica kicked off their tour on October 21st in Glendale, AZ and will continue moving across North America into spring of 2009.   
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