Akai, Korg, XLRs, S/PDIF, and putting ten quarts of shit in an 8 quart bucket

[atomictoyz]

Has anyone, or is anyone ever put their stand alone DAW's like the Korgs, Akai's, Rolands, Yamaha's, Tascams and Fostex's, on a bit scope, to see really what kind of accuracy your getting out of the converters. I haven't done a whole bunch o research yet, but Im wondering why a Lucid 8 channel converter by itself is almost more money than an entire workstation. An advertised 24 bit converter that registers only 22 or 23 bits on a bit scope should sound worse than a true 20 bit converters, which from what Ive heard actually dithers from thermal noise around 18 bits if its not linear. So which one of these do it alls have linear converters, as oppsed to a "n-bit" converter? I think this task might be interesting, who has the best converters in the real world verses advertised media hype?


Peace,
Dennis

 

[Shazukura]

Interesting questions atomictoyz. I can't help but assume that with the extreme high-end items you are paying mostly for hype; after all, that's how it works in the other businesses I've been in. The highest margin items are rarely the "best", especially if you are doing a cost/benefit analysis.

When you get right down to it though, can't you make higher fidelity recordings off mid-range digital equipment than you can with a tape 4-track? At what point does an increase in quality become immaterial?

-Shaz

 

[Downside Studio]

Around here you can get a good deal at the akai stuff, like the dr16 and dr8. I guess they know these thingies are not going to make it compared to the competition out there, but they shure are good thingies. For the bargain price they are being dumped it would be a great deal for everybody who wants to experiment with multiple tracks.

uhm..now I think of it, no preamps. You'll need external preamps.

DR16pro for EURO 1888, don't know how much in $.

uhm..I see the Mackie MDR2496 for EUR 1939 next to it.

uhm uhm...forget about the Akais