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Welcome to ASR.
Depends upon your budget. Easy recommendation is RME. Will cost about $2k new.
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Cheaper, but a bit of bother on your part is the E1DA Cosmos ADC. There are threads about it here on ASR if you do a search.
Both offer at or near state of the art performance.
The Topping is good for the money. Maybe you could fill in more details of how you intend to use the ADC. Speaker measurements, electronic gear measurements or what?
Some of the MOTU interfaces between $500 and $1000 are a good in between choice.
Depends upon your budget. Easy recommendation is RME. Will cost about $2k new.
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Cheaper, but a bit of bother on your part is the E1DA Cosmos ADC. There are threads about it here on ASR if you do a search.
Both offer at or near state of the art performance.
The Topping is good for the money. Maybe you could fill in more details of how you intend to use the ADC. Speaker measurements, electronic gear measurements or what?
Some of the MOTU interfaces between $500 and $1000 are a good in between choice.
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Better, how? Most audio interfaces are pretty good.
Zoom makes some that work at 32-bit floating-point but that mostly means they can go over 0dB without clipping. It doesn't mean you can get better accuracy than a 24-bit interface, which usually isn't accurate to 24-bits.
The main sound-quality characteristics of an audio interface are usually related to the microphone preamps (noise & gain). For measurement you probably will be using line-input so preamp performance isn't important.
Usually, the main consideration is the number of inputs for multi-track recording, and sometimes features like direct-hardware zero-latency monitoring, etc.
Some also have better headphone outputs (more "power").
Zoom makes some that work at 32-bit floating-point but that mostly means they can go over 0dB without clipping. It doesn't mean you can get better accuracy than a 24-bit interface, which usually isn't accurate to 24-bits.
The main sound-quality characteristics of an audio interface are usually related to the microphone preamps (noise & gain). For measurement you probably will be using line-input so preamp performance isn't important.
Usually, the main consideration is the number of inputs for multi-track recording, and sometimes features like direct-hardware zero-latency monitoring, etc.
Some also have better headphone outputs (more "power").
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Thank you! E1DA Cosmos ADC is definitely what I'm looking for. Are there other devices in the same format like that one?
Welcome to ASR.
Depends upon your budget. Easy recommendation is RME. Will cost about $2k new.
ADI-2-Pro FS R BE - RME Audio Interfaces | Format Converters | Preamps | Network Audio & MADI Solutions
RME Audio Professional Live, Studio, Recording and Broadcast Solutions. Unrivalled Quality, Performance & Stability MADI Interfaces, Converters & Preamps.
Cheaper, but a bit of bother on your part is the E1DA Cosmos ADC. There are threads about it here on ASR if you do a search.
Both offer at or near state of the art performance.
The Topping is good for the money. Maybe you could fill in more details of how you intend to use the ADC. Speaker measurements, electronic gear measurements or what?
Some of the MOTU interfaces between $500 and $1000 are a good in between choice.
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