How's the quality of the A16 ultra converters?

six_wax · Post by **six_wax** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 9:53 am

Anybody have any expereince with these? How do they sound?

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 10:55 am

I really like the sound of the A16 Ultra.

I now have a Spirit 328, Yamaha 03d, Fostex VM200, and Korg 168RC here for sale-- The AI3 is already gone. Anyone need a digital mixer?

six_wax · Post by **six_wax** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 12:33 pm

aha... I see that the Z-link interface is not standard on the P2 boards --I was not aware of this. This makes the A16U a little less flexible than I thought. I'm not really into the notion of paying $300 for another proprietary interface format. hrrmm...

Incindentally, I'm looking to add to the number of IOs my 328 offers...

other comments onthis unit?

jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 12:52 pm

Well, both the A16 ultra and Pulsar 2 has 16 ch. ADAT I/O so.....

Post by **garyb** » Sun Jun 23, 2002 12:56 am

so the a16 is a good buy for 16 channel 24bit.

WayneSim · Post by **WayneSim** » Sun Jun 23, 2002 1:07 am

On 2002-06-23 01:56, garyb wrote:
so the a16 is a good buy for 16 channel 24bit.

Yes, however if you want 24bit 96 Khz you need 2 x Z-links. Adat is only 24bit 48Khz

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doodyrh · Post by **doodyrh** » Sun Jun 23, 2002 3:56 am

On 2002-06-23 02:07, WayneSim wrote:
Yes, however if you want 24bit 96 Khz you need 2 x Z-links. Adat is only 24bit 48Khz

Two 48kHz ADAT channels can be multiplexed together as one 96kHz channel using S-Mux.

doodyrh · Post by **doodyrh** » Sun Jun 23, 2002 4:12 am

BTW, I'm also in the market for an AD with ADAT but don't need the DA.
I'm loath to pay for functionality I won't need.

JoeKa · Post by **JoeKa** » Sun Jun 23, 2002 4:58 am

@doodyrh: I´d propose swissonic converters.

doodyrh · Post by **doodyrh** » Mon Jun 24, 2002 2:20 am

I've been looking at Swissonic. The quality appears to be excellent but price per port it much higher that Creamware.
It's a shame CW don't do an 8-port AD only version of A16 at around half the price. I think there'd be a lot of takers.

orbita · Post by **orbita** » Mon Jun 24, 2002 4:34 am

They should do a 32 channel A-D version (no D-A) of the A16 at the same price

that would rock!

Oh, and a ADAT->spdif detangler so we can plug in multiple spdif boxes