Re: OT Best Quality Sound Card - Least Amount of Mone

["L.Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

Andreas are u talking about this one?

http://www.apogeedigital.com/products/mini-dac.php?section=artists&show=Mini-Series

www.myspace.com/luisangulocom


--- On Mon, 2/23/09, Andreas Willers <a.willers@arcor.de> wrote:

> From: Andreas Willers <a.willers@arcor.de>
> Subject: Re: OT  Best  Quality Sound Card - Least Amount of Mone
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Date: Monday, February 23, 2009, 8:02 PM
> Rick,
> 
> after using an RME card for a long time with good results I
> moved to a cheap Presonus box for my Mac Mini a couple of
> years ago. For my latest solo projects I re-evaluated my
> recording gear and sadly found that Apogee simply blew away
> the Presonus and even RME and Motu. In the end I found a
> used MiniMe with the USB output for half the street price
> for a new one so I didn't feel so bad after all.
> 
> Of course recording fingerpicked solo acoustic guitar is
> quite a task and sonic differences are diminishing a little
> bit when you are working on louder, densely layered, thicker
> sounding music. Still I was shocked at how noisy the
> Presonus was, how dull and muffled the Motu sounded and that
> even the famed Fireface 400 despite it's geat routing
> capabilities paled soundwise in direct comparison to the
> Apogee. And side by side comparison is the way to go here.
> 
> Supposedly there are no big differences in the A/D
> conversion chips any more these days so the difference must
> lie in the analog path to the converters. That makes sense
> in a way since e.g. discrete analog mic pres generally do
> sound superior to IC-based designs. I have a couple of old
> Telefunken V676's here that do sound nicer than the TLA
> Ivory channel strips I had and also the bulidt-in mic
> pre's of the Apogee. And then there are those old tube
> Telefunkens they used to use at Abbey Road studios....
> 
> Anyway, I'm curious to hear what you guys have found.