![]() Bottom line is that I do not need this box and yet I confess to suffering gear lust for it.Īs Ashermusic pointed out, specs do not tell the whole story. I love the fact that it is class compliant and will require no driver. And it is going to integrate witjh Logic Pro (which I teach at UCLA BTW) beautifully. And you certainly would have a more convenient, not to mention portable, interface. Based on what Apogee has told me my guess is that you would indeed be stepping down the converter quality a little but unless you have a well-tunded room and really good monitoring system it probably will not be that noticable to you. I have listened to some fairly dreadful sounding stuff over the years that speced out well and vice-versa. Numbers do not always tell the whole story. So, I really want to see the bottom line numbers, Dynamic range and THD noise floor in -db. Everything I have been wanting, and surround monitoring level control. With the ensemble I would have some clean mic pre's similar to my speck, and have dual D/I for my synths, dual headphone to monitor while tracking. It's too bad it would be a downgrade on the conversion. All the features I want and no out of pocket cash. Then sell my PT cards and G4 and have enough for a new G5 quad. I wonder if my apogee converters sound better through a passive volume control like the coleman audio, over the DAC1? Thing is, I could sell my rosetta, DAC1, and my speck 5 pre and pretty much pay for the ensemble and a copy of logic. ![]() I am using a DAC1 now so I can have hi-quality headphone monitoring and volume control. If the quality is there at this price point, that would be amazing. True, but no surround monitor, stereo D/I and dual headphone monitor if I get a symphony w/rosetta. Have you checked out the PCIe Symphony card? If you've already got the Rosetta, it could be a very viable alternative and still give you similar Logic integration.and possibly improved latency over the FW route. What is the dynamic range, and the THD? The rosetta is 114db, and THD -105AD, -103DA everything my DAC1 is and isn't, but again my question, how does it sound? There are no tech specs on the web site. I am going to add surround to my setup and having the volume for all of those channels in the interface is brilliant. Things I like, built in pre's with 2 hi-z ins for instruments, and a monitor section for full 6 or 8 channel surround. Also the monitor section does what my dac1 does plus adds 6 and 8 channel monitoring. It's fairly cheap compared to a rosetta so I was wondering what it sounds like. I was planning to sell the x-digi card and my mix plus cards and buy the fire wire card for the rosetta when I saw the ensemble integrates with logic. I am upgrading the computer to a dual core mac and switching to logic pro 7.2. ![]() I currently use a rosetta 800 and a Dac 1 connected to protools via a x-digimix card.
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