Can anyone recommend a good quality, reasonably priced, stereo A to D converter with AES (XKR) or SPDIF (RCA) outputs?
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I find this one quite interesting:
https://www.beis.de/Elektronik/ADDA24QS/AD24QS.html You can save some money building it yourself, or buy an assembled one.
Can you give a price point?
'Reasonable' is relative.
They do make an assembled unit (with a few extra features), but it's around 1000 Euros, not sure if that's in your price range:I'm after analogue input and digital output via AES or Coax which, unless I'm mistaken, doesn't seem to be supported with this unit.
Looks good. It doesn't look possible, though, to purchase an assembled unit?
Looks good to me... no Tascam device has ever disappointed me.Edit: Just found Tascam UH-7000 which would seem to be an option?
Did you actually read that review? When they started to talk about some $325 coaxial digital RCA cables making huge differences... they lost my interest. Sorry, but had to throw that in.Under $200
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/264903-REG/Behringer_SRC2496_ULTRAMATCH_PRO_Sample.html
FWIW: https://www.hifi-advice.com/blog/review/digital-reviews/spdif-dac-reviews/behringer-ultramatch-pro/
I got the link from here: http://pages.infinit.net/cyrberg/ Impressive amount of gear - sort of Restorer-John wannabe territory.
Did you actually read that review? When they started to talk about some $325 coaxial digital RCA cables making huge differences... they lost my interest. Sorry, but had to throw that in.
Nevertheless, there may be some more "scientific" reviews favoring the Behringer, I am not saying it isn't good.
Agree.
I ignored the 'chaff'. The features were well covered. For some the 24/96kHz limitation may be a deal breaker. If there is interest I will see if I can find better references than my quick search uncovered.
The Tascam Europe website lists that one as discontinued, the US site doesn't. Either way, it's still available from retailers. It's a decent device, though there are a couple of things you should be aware of before buying. Firstly, it picks up some high-frequency noise from the internal power supply. It's not enough to be a problem for regular music recording, but for any deeper analysis, it could be an issue. Secondly, it is not USB audio class compliant, and it is not supported by Linux. The provided Windows drivers work well, however.Edit: Just found Tascam UH-7000 which would seem to be an option?
What nonsense! Sonifex make extremely good and reliable products, which I've used for years, 24/7, with complete satisfaction. Great service too if spares etc are ever needed.If you want for example, to make very good rips from good/very good vinyls:
I STRONGLY recommend RME ADC products, specially if you live in Europe.
Something old but still very good and cheap. Up to 24/192.
RME ADI 2
https://www.thomann.de/es/rme_adi_2_addawandler.htm change to other site or UK to English. € 599
Avoid Sonifex.
In USA, old, very very good but expensive: Lavry AD11
http://www.lavryengineering.com/wiki/index.php/AD11