Unfortunately for lovers of dust and beautifully over-engineered gear, the room-sized recording console is dying out fast, replaced by software and small, neat, racks of pre-amps and analog summing mixers.

ENGADGET: Music Thing: Frontier Alphatrack

As in auto mode, in the manual setting you can adjust the quickness of shifts, from slow and smooth to so fast no human being could emulate the blinding-blur gear changes.

FORBES: Vehicles Feature

Like the BRZ, the Focus ST isn't particularly, by-the-clock fast (0-60 mph in about six seconds, at about 6, 600 rpm at the top of second gear) but it feels birdlike, sporty, tossable, willing, lively.

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