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travisbrown · 11th November 2009

There are dozens of threads on the HD24 and people still using it. Using the search will help you.

The HD24(XR) is hardly antiquated since Alesis still makes and sells them. And ADAT as a transfer protocol isn't going anywhere.

I'm not sure that the Aurora 16 is any better than an HD24XR. Sure the Aurora goes to 192k, but there are few compelling arguments that there's any benefit to anything over 88.2k/96k, and many quite happily get excellent results at 44.1k/48k.

It's really just a workflow choice rather than a sonic choice. Do you want an external recorder or do you want to record to a DAW?

11th November 2009	#3
travisbrown Lives for gear Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 4,138 9 Reviews written	There are dozens of threads on the HD24 and people still using it. Using the search will help you. The HD24(XR) is hardly antiquated since Alesis still makes and sells them. And ADAT as a transfer protocol isn't going anywhere. I'm not sure that the Aurora 16 is any better than an HD24XR. Sure the Aurora goes to 192k, but there are few compelling arguments that there's any benefit to anything over 88.2k/96k, and many quite happily get excellent results at 44.1k/48k. It's really just a workflow choice rather than a sonic choice. Do you want an external recorder or do you want to record to a DAW? __________________ I'm not a producer, but I play one on Gearslutz.com