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Originally Posted by awediohead  There were a number of things, none of them enough on its own to cause me to question the wisdom of splashing £1600 on the R 16 - but in combination and without being under any real time pressure to have something *now* as opposed to some time in 2010, I felt it wiser to wait for the R24, even though it'll doubtless cost a good bit more.
FWIW and in no particular order:
1) It seemed crazy to me not to have a way of sending at least two of the four stereo channels directly down the firewire cable.
2) Lack of Mic/Line switch
3) Auxes pre fader without post/pre switch
4) Lack of Word Clock i/o
5) Lack of Solo
6) Inability to work at 24/96kHz with 16+2 LR + ADAT -> with the ADAT smux. It's either/or - a FF800 will do both, in fact all it's capable of via FW400. You only need FW800 when using two or more units, and it's 5+ years old. Not a deal-breaker but enough to make be appreciate what I already have!!
7) 60mm faders and them being unmotorised weren't hugely significant factors, but in their absence a more elegant "scene" recall would be good to be less dependent on visual feedback from the DAW. Something similar to the StudioLive perhaps - which also doesn't have motorised faders.
8) Lack of direct outs for all channels.
9) Probably a few other niggles I can't remember.
Again if there'd been no R24 on the horizon I would definitely have kept it. I'm just trying to make the best use of limited funds - spending even £1000 more for a desk that serves our needs indefinitely makes sense to me.
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With the exception of #6 ( not sure ) I'm pretty sure everything else has been addressed in the R24 design