MOTU converters

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Ford Van said:
There are a quite a few high end converters on the market, and many people that have had the opportunity to compare them would NOT agree that Apogee is "top dog in A/D conversion"! While it is one of the better brands, there are plenty of other converters that rival Apogee, and many other brands are preferred by some over Apogee.

Apogee owes a LOT of it's success to being one of the few companies that made A/D/A for earlier ProTools systems. This lead to it's wide use.

If you want to know what "top dog" is in A/D/A's, start looking at what mastering facilities are using. Some use Apogee, but you will see some converters that cost about twice what Apogee does! ;)

The difference between an Apogee and a MOTU converter has NOTHING to do with sample frequency. A Apogee at 44.1KHz will certainly sound better than a new MOTU at 192KHz! Apogee just has a far superior analog circuit, and a MUCH MUCH MUCH better word clock! Those two things alone make up about 95% of the difference in quality between them.
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I agree the Apogee owes a lot of their success to the Pro Tools set.. I can certainly go hunting down mastering facilities to see what they are using. I like to read about this stuff. I probably never will be able to buy any of it. In your thoughts what are some of the other makers of such equipment. The only ones I have seen are the Apogee and the Lynx Aurora. Anyway, curious minds want to know :D
 
Ford Van said:
Don't worry, I wasn't aiming an attack at you. If I was, I would have made it personal! ;)
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I didn't take it that way - I just wanted to be sure my posts were not misleading anyone.......

Fenderlady - Check your PM's.........

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Wow, they want $3000.00 for the Lynx Aurora 16. Although some of the other converters are much more than that. Guess I am going to have to start saving my pop can money ;) I am sure I will get something like that someday, if I can quit buying synths and guitars :D
 
Yeah. Not even close. Those are some of the best A/D/A stuff on the market.

RME converters sound pretty good though. While I haven't done much work on them myself, I have a buddy that uses them a LOT and his work is outstanding sounding. But, he also uses a Benchmark D/A to monitor.

If you really want to improve on what you are hearing overall, just upgrade your D/A converter. It will have a more drastic effect on your audio overall than upgrading your A/D will.
 
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