A/D Converter/Clock

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I'm looking to buy both. I've been looking at the Apogee Rosetta, and I'm almost set on getting it, but I was just wondering if there was anything else out there that you guys would suggest.

Darth
 
So, does the lucid clock act as a preamp/ad/da converter unit? I'm confused exactly what you would use it for/ how you would hook it up to a computer.

You'd have to already have a sound card, such as, an aardvark q10. and you'd hook it up to that for an additional 2 inputs? So it wouldn't bypass 2 of the existing 8 inputs of the aardavrk, but give you an addition 2, making a total of 10? And the extra 2 would be much higher quality?
 
A word clock merely clocks the incoming/outgoing audio. Think of it as segmenting / dividing the audio in to snapshots, piecing them together into a continuous audio flow -- kind of how film works. Your sound card already has a clock . . . but bypassing it in favor of a dedicated, external one can often make an improvement in the audio quality. Just how much is debatable.

In order to hook it up to your existing sound card or audio interface, it would need to have wordclock I/O.

An a/d - d/a converter acts as a standalone converter -- no mic pres or anything -- and would hook up to your sound card's Digital Input (usually SPDIF). In most cases, offering you only 2 inputs and outputs worth of a/d.
 
All digital signals depend on constant timing.... if you have multiple devices receiving/transmitting a digital signal, it's critical that each device reads the leading and trailing edges of the signal at precisely the same point, otherwise the interpretation of the digital 1 or 0 can be skewed.

Having all devices clocked by a high-quality word clock will avoid the issue....
 
DarthFaders said:
I'm looking to buy both. I've been looking at the Apogee Rosetta, and I'm almost set on getting it, but I was just wondering if there was anything else out there that you guys would suggest.

Darth
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Universal Audio apparently has a new A/D/A out, which has (among other things) four word clock outs, which reduces the need for a distribution amp.

I have no idea how good it is, or is not, but it seems like an interesting option.

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Lucid AD/DA 2496... these have gotten excellent reviews... though one reviews said that they sound "glassy" on the high-end. Still, a high quality converter. I'm also in the market for better ADA's.

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