Hello,
As I said in my previous message I use a Swissonic DA24 (8 balanced cannon outputs) and I think it's a very good unit.
As the model implies it's a 24 bit unit with 48khz capability (no 96Khz but does it matter ?), the optical cable is included.
Infos at http://www.swissonic.com
I've bought it online at http://www.musicians-gear.com/ (Germany) for about 450 euros.
Ciao
Alessandro Fogar
----- Original Message ----- From: DI Winfried Ritsch ritsch@algo.mur.at To: Nick Fells n.fells@music.gla.ac.uk Cc: pd-list@iem.mhsg.ac.at Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 6:07 PM Subject: Re: multiple channels in pd
Hello,
Great! Thanks. That means we can go ahead and get the kit with confidence. What's your verdict on the VC-8? Nice price compared to an ADAT, but how's the quality?
Thats the great question:
its a nice price for 20Bit ADDA but they have no symmetric outputs/inputs, and can do only 44.1 from their own sync but can be synced from the card on other rates. We used them mostly because they are cheap and plugged them directly in the amps having the DAs besides the amps using long optical cables so quality is good enough (I cant hear any noise or distorion).
But since we need often only DAs the question is what other products are good ?? I would be interrested if someone has experience with other once.
In studios we have an ADAT-Matrix so we can switch them directly to other HD-Recording or use as for monitoring digital pruduction some ADAT-Mixers like Yamaha O1V or O3D and so on. We also used some Creamware ADDA, but everytime you switch them on you have to change the sync source before turning on the amps, this leads sometimes lower volumed ears ;-))).
But I idnt try other ones.
mfg winfried.
PS:We tried to get optical cables for cutting them ourselves but last time i didnt find any distributor (a year before I got them in electronic market). Has anybody out there an idea where to buy eg. 200m optical cable at good price ?