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Old 21st May 2010   #17
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A "better" recommendation.....well, in a qualitative sense, that answer couldn't truly come from anyone else than you. However, IF your goal is to capture the output from said summing module as "accurately" (a word, which in audio, appears, to have no standardization) as possible there are many choices (budgetary considerations notwithstanding)....IMHO-

Weiss...(an op-amp design...797's too, pretty cool!!)
Fred Forssell's MADC-2...(jfet, genius designer)
Mytek (op-amp, Jim Williams did the analog section which I think is pretty neat!)
DAD ax24, EMM labs...and there are others!!

If that is not your goal there are still many options- but the following I find to be true enough to still apply, no matter what the desired outcome be, "accurate" or "colored"....

In the end, one must consider goals in conjunction with application. Being that the intrinsic performance of any gear has a limit inherited by its design, find a designer whose "philosophy" (regarding the goals) closely mirrors yours.

.....or...you could don chain mail, walk on down to your local Guitar Center, wave 4k in the air and trust whatever you walk out of the smoldering ruin with.

...the choice is yours...choose wisely.
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