jesussaddle
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Please help, anyone who knows DACs.
I'm looking for an interface (into Windows and Mac) with the best upper frequency band reproduction for under $1000. I.e. best DACs? I'm willing to use Firewire or USB 2.0, or PCI slots (See Lynx comment below). I do a lot of ambient stuff with a lot of shimmer. I hate when it (shimmer, brilliance, imaging, spatial character and depth) doesn't show up during playback, when it was there during recording. (My grandfather kept songbirds - I think I listened to a lot of high frequency stuff as a child and it warped my brain.) I do all my work direct, using headphones.
Number of ins/outs is not so much an issue. The resulting tracks will be mixed and burned to CD with, hopefully, good fidelity, but I may be willing to use a second interface to do this. Why I say that? Because, although I probably will not go this route, still I have considered using a Korg MR-1 for its pristine clarity, (sample rate at 2.3 Ghz) and bounding the tracks. I would record to the MR-1 while monitoring a rhythm track played back via my DAW. That will be a chore since I will then need to line up the starting points of the MR-1 produced tracks I import with the other tracks in the DAW by ear - a real pain. Also, I don't know how well the sample rate conversion algorithms that Korg has for their unit.
Besides ridiculously high sample rates, is there a sure bet to reproduce all the clarity of the upper bands of the spectrum, in an interface for under $1000, like an RME, Presonus, MOTU, Focusrite? People seem to be willing to spend even more, and seem willing to buy separate DACs. I see Apogee and Lavry mentioned. (I see people buying Lynx too, which are minimal in terms of I/O and PCI based).
Looked through the forum but could not get an answer to this; sorry if I missed something.
http://www.ucmg.net/wellness/holistic_articles/staying_healthy/music-and-medicine.htm
I'm looking for an interface (into Windows and Mac) with the best upper frequency band reproduction for under $1000. I.e. best DACs? I'm willing to use Firewire or USB 2.0, or PCI slots (See Lynx comment below). I do a lot of ambient stuff with a lot of shimmer. I hate when it (shimmer, brilliance, imaging, spatial character and depth) doesn't show up during playback, when it was there during recording. (My grandfather kept songbirds - I think I listened to a lot of high frequency stuff as a child and it warped my brain.) I do all my work direct, using headphones.
Number of ins/outs is not so much an issue. The resulting tracks will be mixed and burned to CD with, hopefully, good fidelity, but I may be willing to use a second interface to do this. Why I say that? Because, although I probably will not go this route, still I have considered using a Korg MR-1 for its pristine clarity, (sample rate at 2.3 Ghz) and bounding the tracks. I would record to the MR-1 while monitoring a rhythm track played back via my DAW. That will be a chore since I will then need to line up the starting points of the MR-1 produced tracks I import with the other tracks in the DAW by ear - a real pain. Also, I don't know how well the sample rate conversion algorithms that Korg has for their unit.
Besides ridiculously high sample rates, is there a sure bet to reproduce all the clarity of the upper bands of the spectrum, in an interface for under $1000, like an RME, Presonus, MOTU, Focusrite? People seem to be willing to spend even more, and seem willing to buy separate DACs. I see Apogee and Lavry mentioned. (I see people buying Lynx too, which are minimal in terms of I/O and PCI based).
Looked through the forum but could not get an answer to this; sorry if I missed something.
http://www.ucmg.net/wellness/holistic_articles/staying_healthy/music-and-medicine.htm
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