ibleedburgundy
The Anti-Lambo
I was reading an article in SoS about clocks and AD Converters. The jist of the article was that they ran a bunch of tests and under no circumstances did using an external clock improve performance (contrary to what is typically advertised). Higher quality gear was merely better at being the slave unit. This resulted in lower jitter than the cheaper gear, but in in every case it was still a degradation from using the unit's internal clock.
So if you're a guy like me who records 16 tracks simultaneously on a regular basis, and it wouldn't take much adding to have 16 decent preamps on hand, wouldn't you be better off buying an interface with 16+ AD converters such as the apogee symphony, Antelope Orion, or Lynx Aurora 16 rather than getting a UA Apollo/Digi 003/RME Fireface/Prism Orpheus etc and then matching it up via ADAT with some other clock such as an Audient ASP 008 or Alesis ADAT XT or whatever?
So if you're a guy like me who records 16 tracks simultaneously on a regular basis, and it wouldn't take much adding to have 16 decent preamps on hand, wouldn't you be better off buying an interface with 16+ AD converters such as the apogee symphony, Antelope Orion, or Lynx Aurora 16 rather than getting a UA Apollo/Digi 003/RME Fireface/Prism Orpheus etc and then matching it up via ADAT with some other clock such as an Audient ASP 008 or Alesis ADAT XT or whatever?