[Dirty Halo]

Originally Posted by David Rick

No, of course not. Neither is the ADA-8 series, or they couldn't have hit their (not very stringent) cost and size goals. The only sub-ranging ADC's I'm aware of are the Prism Dream, and the stage box for some wacky digital console that's probably out of production by now. It's very hard to make a sub-ranging converter that actually works well. As far as I know, Prism were the only ones who ever succeeded. But technology marches on, and I don't think there's much incentive for other designers to follow that path.

Incidentally, several of the important chips in Orpheus didn't even exist when the ADA-8 was designed. It's possible that the actual converter chips are the same as the ADA-8XR, although I haven't looked. But if the converter chips were all that mattered, then there wouldn't be any high end converter market, and we'd all be buying MOTU boxes.

David L. Rick
Seventh String Recording

Oh man, thank you... thought I was losing my mind. Someone on another thread was insisting they were of equal quality

-andrews