For everyone too lazy to click the link, its an E-Mu 1212M 24bit/192kHz card

Well its $199 and features mastering-grade converters. They should put everyone out of business if its true. :roll:

And its not yet available, the link says 2/18/04, and it was just announced last week at NAMM. I'd say give it three months from that date and the initial reviews will start to come out.

mitz

You're observant, I missed that. Did you see that they're advertising these in their catalog as the same converters used in the Pro-Tools HD-192.

Yeh, I'd be waiting on the initial roll out of this and check out the reveiws afterwards. $199.xx, can't beat that....same converters in the PT HD system? Hmmm..... :eek:

That may be the case, but here's the big secret. There is analog circuitry that comes before the ADC and after the DAC, and it has a huge impact on the sound quality. SO they may be the same converters, but that's still not saying much.

Yeah, I suppose that could make or brake it. Isn't E-Mu a synth manufacturer? I guess maybe I am just attracted to it because I think it's just exactly what I need-no more no less-compared to my current config. (8 in, 8 out,Spdif). I like the idea of simplifying things, and maybe even going without a real world mixer in the signal chain. Hey Mark, bump me in May...

Phil my memory is nowhere that good.

E-Mu is a synth maker, has been for years They were acquired by Creative a while back, an, since then, basically their synth R&D has been on zero budget, besides creating new sample ROMs for existing synth architectures. Let's hope that trend changes.

Oh and a good idea for mixerless setups is something like the Samson C Control.

The last known hardware system they put out was the "Emu Darwin", almost a decade ago.

Thanks guys, great info. I was wondering about that word that kept reappearing in the ad text-"Creative"....are Intel and Creative linked? Hmmmmmm.............

[ March 01, 2004, 10:54 PM: Message edited by: Phil E. ]

Thanks guys, great info. I was wondering about that word that kept reappearing in the ad text-"Creative"....are Microsoft and Creative linked? Hmmmmmm.............

Sorry, guys didn't mean to double post, thought I was editing the first message.