On 12/07/2012 06:49 PM, Brent Busby wrote:
> Currently my recording setup is an RME Multiface II connected to their
> PCI-E card, which of course works great in Jack. I'd like to find a
> way to take advantage of the 8 ADAT i/o's so I could have 16 i/o's in
> use total.
>
> The funny thing is though that almost all the standalone converter
> boxes made by RME, Lynx, and just about everyone else that have 8
> i/o's and an ADAT port are around $1700-2000 USD. It seems odd that
> RME can manage to put 8 analog i/o's with nice converters into a
> Multiface II box and sell it for $700-900 but they can't give you the
> same thing without the computer uplink for less than $1700. Look at
> the comparative prices to see what I mean:
>
> http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Multiface2
>
> http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ADI8ProDS/
>
Maybe patent licenses? ADAT isn't an open standard AFAIK..
Flo
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