Acustica Audio introduces Aquamarine 5, the ‘Hyper’ upgrade of the mastering compressor monster – Page 2 – Effects Forum

The new Hyper technology is being used on dynamic processes. Saturation, Preamps (aka saturation), and compression/limiting uses Hyper because they are dynamic processes. Acustica has always had issues with their dynamic processes, and Hyper improves the sound quality and feel by a huge margin. EQ is not dynamic.

I believe that the “Hyper” EQ on Frost is not even sampled, it’s fully algorithmic. Whatever they mean by “Hyper” on that fully algorithmic EQ is not comparable to the “Hyper” changes they’ve made to Volterra Kernel sampled dynamic processes.

The EQ’s on Acustica stuff already sound incredible and don’t really need improvement like the dynamic stuff (unless it’s like cpu efficiency or latency or something, but not sound quality). Anyone getting super upset that an Acustica EQ isn’t using “Hyper” is either misguided, or is just looking for a reason to get mad.