I was under the impression that the Lynx offered better converters, until I read up that they both share the same analog, but the digital the E-Mu's are newer....what the fuck?>
not sure if the Lucid is a step up....but if your bored you could email fletcher and ask him...merc sells both lynx2 and lucid...and i know the MAC that he has at his shop has one of the variations of the Lynx2 in there...
I've heard they were better then the lower end RME's...but when you record the signals hot it gets shitty fast, but this is all hearsay never heard the emu's before....I can tell you from experience you can hit the lynx2 converters as hard as you want (even clip them ever so slightly) and they still sound as wonderful as if you hit them with a moderate signal