waltzingbear

there is no above the top of the tier, at best we are just beginning to approach a point were we have good reliable quality conversion available with reasonable cost and understanding. Converters are still "broken" because they don't have reliable nor consistent resolution within their system parameters. You don't really believe we have a 24 bit system do you? I think the absolute best available will still only give 23 bits resolution (and that's the Gold Lavry's and Dcs's). Its getting better, but at a slower pace. By the way, I'm the guy that if you ask me which computer OS is better, I'll tell you they are all broken. Alan

I guess sadly you are right, I thought they were still double marketing themselves, but a quick look at the site tells me otherwise. Its sad they stopped designing ADCs. I guess the mass market (?) was too appealing. I was at a couple of sessions with Andy McHarg at the Frisco AES a month ago and they are still very much pursuing advances in digital audio delivery. Alan

to consider pro audio dac's you need to look at first tier: Mytek Benchmark Lynx Aurora Apogee Crane Song (HEDD or Avocet) second tier: Lavry Engineering Dcs Weiss there are of course more, but these are the more commonly used. Alan

if all your gear is black, these are going to stand out as garish cheap plastic looking c**p. I can't believe they actually expect people to look at the products and believe they are serious, I know people who swear by them, but I just spent 5 hours working next to one and it reminds me of cheap Japanese gear from the 70s. Think Nikko. Get a clue Antelope! I don't know if they do the job or not. I personally have a problem with a company that drops its distributors/support/etc and closes its doors with no thought to its users. Not even leaving it's manuals online. That company was Antelo... oops I mean Aardvark. Same people. New name. Will they be around tomorrow? I don't know, and they certainly won't tell you if the past is a predictor of the future.

I found the specs on the transformers Lynx uses, there are two transformers per cube so there is a transformer for all inputs and all output on the AES-16. Sorry for the confusion. Alan

just because the output is transformer coupled doesn't mean your connections are. You need to make sure the ground is lifted on the cable at the destination end to have full galvanic isolation. There are indeed 8 transformers on the Lynx AES-16 card. Inputs are electrically balanced as far as I can tell.

Their is another choice out there for hi end clocking and re-clocking, Grimm Audio. http://www.grimmaudio.com/cc1grimm.htm I have not had a personal opportunity to use one, but am familiar with their work in general and regard it well. Their white papers are worth reading as well. perhaps if I post here someone will try it out and report back!! they come from the production side of the business (like myself) and are interested in raising the production quality of recorded media. Alan