Honestly, I can't see A&H offering a smorgasbord of ZEDR~ desk options. This is not an economical way of manufacturing anything.
Even if they came out with three different desk options, experience tells me that there will still not be the perfect board - there will almost certainly be bits from every option that we'll wish were in the same desk. Like, option A is closest to what I want, but that thing from option B is really cool and I could definitely use that other thing from option C and man, if only they made an option D. Etc.
So then we're back to the R24, with every bell, whistle and shiney doohickey requested on this mammoth thread, which'll cost ya.
In the spirit of questing for perpetual improvement, however (and 'cos it's fun), gazing in to my crystal ball and looking at the photos of the R16, I predict that A&H will at the very least move the jacks to the back of a future unit, because pushing them over the edge immediately creates the space for 100mm faders if you drag everything else on the channels upwards. There - my twopenneth (no cents in the UK, see).
Personally, I can live with everything about the R16 RIGHT NOW
, providing the four auxes can be soldered post fader.
Is it hard? Is it a good idea? Is it irreversible (hey, there's a word you don't hear every day, except in vasectomy clinics)?
A&H Mike - any advice, please?