apogee converters

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I have the ad 16x. It has the big ben built into it.

The most noticeable thing when you first get converters is the imaging.
There is no way i could have gotten that depth of stereo with just my 002 alone.
Not that you cant get fine mixes with a 002, you can.

Big they just dont sound as huge, and wide until you get the good converters, and clock.
 
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hmmm, what about the ISA with a big ben, and the dac1 or lavry black for my monitoring.

would i even be able to hook all that up to my 002r successfully?
 
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I don't know how good your mics, monitoring chain, and room are, but for my money I'd want those items "up to grade" before investing in more converters (I'm assuming that the 428 converters are pretty decent RME quality).

Is there something about your final music product that falls short of your expectations? If so, do you think the 428 converters are the primary cause of this shortfall? If so, then go for better converters.
 
everything else is pretty up to par, I've honestly never really used the ISA converters on everything, usually just drums. I'm going to go with just a DAC1 for now, and possibly take advantage of guitar centers 30 day satisfaction gaurantee on the rosetta 800, try things out. My main thing is seeing if the rosetta has that much of an advantage over the ISAs AD. I don't want to spend nearly 3gs and say "yeah, i can kinda hear the difference" i want to spend 3gs and go "wow, I can really hear the difference!" yah know?
 
Be carefuly with Guitar Center. The Rosetta 800 may well be a special order in which you will probably have to pay a restocking fee. I would call someone like Mercenary Audio who does have in stock stuff and is good about returns. Have you considered the Aurora and Big Ben combo I mentioned above? This gives you a good clock for the rest of your items also. Mercenary does carry both BTW;)

As far as the Apogee X series stuff, I keep hearing people say it has Big Ben clocking. From what I understand it has clocking capabilities that are BASED on Big Ben technology. This does not mean that it is the same, just that it shares similarities. I have had more than one person tell me that the new Apogee stuff still sounds better with an actual Big Ben. They or I could certainly be wrong though.
 
Yeah, I would definately get a Big Ben shortly after, just need time to save up more money. The X series would be nice to have, but I can't useall 16 channels with my 002 :(
 
After reading up on it, I think I might try to get an Aurora to try out as well. Money is a bit tight, so we'll see.
 
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