OK OK A.R.T I know.. but Anyone heard the Tube Fire 8?

Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 9:24 pm

I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with these.

A friend went to NAMM and said this thing sounded amazing.

Just wondering.

Thanks.

Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 9:44 am

Thats a pretty small box, I wonder if there are heat issues?

Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 1:30 pm

I'm with Link on this. ART products, on a whole, are not known for having pristine sound quality or particularly robust reliability. A tube box with THAT many channels in THAT small a footprint may very well have some "issues" with heat dissipation. I'd give it a year or so of production before shelling out the $$ to buy one. Especially if this friend at the NAMM show is a dealer trying to generate some spin on future sales. Frankly, I find it hard to believe that ANY ART product would "sound amazing"...what was it being compared to?

Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 12:14 am

They were running it side by side with a Focusrite octopre.

However I havent heard much about that unit either.

Is it even a decent front end?

Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 5:56 am

That's what I thought: they chose another mediocre quality piece to compare it with. At least ART doesn't shy away from the fact that they are a "budget" product. With Focusrite, they have used their good name and past history to tout and then dumped the Platinum series on the market to cash in on. Those whores... Laughing

Neither product is very good...

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