Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

From: pete_buchwald
Every study (blindfold, other) I've looked into, the results seem to be: The high end converters may be clearly better from a technical standpoint, but from the aesthetic point of view, the inexpensive ones don't usually sound "worse" but just different. 


I understand that very well. The problem here is that I have a kind of established studio and I simply have to have converters that is generally considered to be "better". It´s somewhat ridiculous but it´s also very much something that a lot of studios have to deal with. Not unlike a mediocre singer thinking that it matters whether he´s recorded with an American handbuilt mic or a Chinese or Australian one. 
Also there is the low internal latency thing, if I´m able to work with 32 samples from the soundcard and only another 10 added by the converters I will have an almost analogue scenario which is something that I would love to have. 
I have tried quite a few converters to see if the latency varies as much as RME and Apogee claims and it does. 
I don´t know how to measure them exactly so what I do is that I use the "recording delay" to give me an idea. When using my own ancient Swissonic I have -46, a more recent RME is -48, a M-Audio I tried was -83 and a Behringer -97. Of coutse I don´t know if my soundcard driver is exactly 0 but I do know that Behringer is more than twice my own ones and introduces more latency than the actual soundcard which kind of ruins the point of running with 32 samples.



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