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Originally Posted by bonne  Hi Steve,
Good stuff! I'm demo'ing the UA 2192 this week and one of the things I'm trying is different degrees of harmonic distortion -> clipping from the "colorful" UA front end for mastering projects.
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In this case, instead of using the attenuators on the ADC you could alternately just turn up an analog gain stage at the end (i.e.something like an active line stage or if you are compressing the signal with an analog box just turn up the output gain on the comp).
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The Mytek Stereo96 seems to be easier to work with in that respect. I also like the small footprint.
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Me too - although half rack units instead of 1/3 rack space like the Mytek stuff doesn't bother me - plus the UA units has DA on it also, which kind of explains the larger full rack space size.
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I saw in another thread that you contemplated exchanging your Mytek96 for the Lavry Blue for ADC back from analog. Do you find the Mytek lacking in any way in this application?
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The Mytek just does straight hard clipping so you have to be careful not to overload it too much because once you go past just clipping the highest transient peaks you really risk distorting the material. The Lavry Blue ADC has a couple of optional "saturation" features - one analog, one digital - that may be useful when clipping inputs - and it also has a reputation of having slightly more headrom than most other converters. I haven't been able to test this out for myself yet though.
My main issue is that since my 4496 rack does not have an input sync module in it I would need to send it back to Lavry to have the ADC installed - so I have to figure out when I can afford the downtime due to not having my two best DAC's on hand.
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How does the Mytek 192 compare?
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Ergonomically they are almost the same.
Apparently they upgraded some analog components and the capacitors, they added the ability to record at the 4xFs rates, and they eliminated the 16bit recording and dither options. I have not heard the Stereo192ADC yet though so I don't know how it sounds in comparison to the Stereo96. It's possible I might get one in to demo later this year though.
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I understand the Mytek 8x96 has a different front end that doesn't work as well for this task.
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From my understandig the Stereo96 units had some minor improvements over the 896 in things like the AES receiver - but that essentially the converter circutry is exatly the same in both. The 896 does not have an adjustable input attenuator on its front panel though.
Best regards,
Steve Berson