Revolutionized my studio...and I had Digidesign 192 before this Lynx Aurora 16. Improvements were: 1- My Blue Sky surround system and my Event AS8 speakers suddenly sounded much more the same. With 192 they were very different. I am sure there is an explanation, have some ideas myself, but for now - just a huge improvement. 2- My Oram BEQ series 8 have been useless with 192, all outputs except the 8 truly balanced group outputs and the 2 main outputs have been just full of noise. Sad - because every 24 channels have a direct output with individual level control. Thought the mixer was badly buildt, but turns out it was the 192. Now with Aurora 16, I can use every single output from the mixer, no noise whatsoever. 3- 192 has some incredibly slow relays that click on and off every time you change sample rate. Takes to three seconds. In Soud Forge this have driven me mad. Becaus when you hit play the relays click, wait three seconds, then sound, but not the first few secs of the tune is played. Then add a plugin, hit preview...click...wait three seconds...open file on disc...click...wait three seconds...etc etc. With Aurora 16 - all clicks are gone, files and plugs and previews just play with no delay whatsoever. 4- All my mixes on 192 have been to bright. Didnt think it was possible, but it seems to be because 192 just sounds extremely muffled in high freq. No "shimmer" could be heard, no depth (add a reverb and wonder if its really on..??)...etc. With Lynx Aurora - all probs gone. Sound is solid, controlled, detalied, full of depth, high freqs are there...suddenly my monitors sound really good! And they should...they are not bad monitors. Especially the Blue Sky system is supposed to be rather high end. 5- Lynx has hazzle free connections. Not like with Digi 192 where you actually have to read the manual before you can dare to connect anything. Use wrong cabling on 192 - that is standard cables - and it might burn your AD card. Happened to me...2 channels died, maybe because of some cabling issue, or maybe because 192 is just very poorly buildt. 6- Digi 192 has an unbelievable noisy fan!! Not be believed! No way it can be mounted in your control room. Totally freekin jumbo jet!! Lynx Aurora of course is without a fan...now mounted half a meter in front of me...looking good, no noise either accoustically or electronically...just sits there and convert audio going in and out, sounding very close to one of the better 2 inch reel maschines we used to have. Fantastic sound. Fantastic. Amazing. Just mount it with a rack space over and nder it free...it gets a bit hot. Best converter I have heard. And the only ones I havent heard are Prism, Mytec, DAD. I have heard the best RADAR System...that was good. I think Aurora might be better. I will NOT hear Avids new interfaces, seems that they are just revamped 192. Never again an Avid or Digidesign AD DA or hardware at all in my studio. They have degraded my sound and quality at work for many years. Ill ceek the HD3 system because I have PT card in the Aurora...but who knows for how long. If Avid makes more mistakes, like trying to be fantastically rude and greedy (they have a tradition for this over at Avid Digidesign) when they eventually make an upgrade package for the HD3 to the new system that is coming,Ill just buy a firewire card for the Aurora, maybe 300 USD, throw the whole Digidesign system in the ocean or destroy it with a hammer just to feel the thrill of revenge, and start up Sonar and get back to making music again!:-) That will be very very very good. Avid - GOODBYE!! Lynx, welcome!! And thank you for making the product so hazzle free that I actually enjoy working in my studio again. Just make sure you get that firewire card really stable and troubble free in the near future - and I am a customer for as long as you and I stay in the audio business. Lynx Aurora saved my studio. Makes me feel like I am back in the old days, say 1985 to 1995 when studio gear could be trusted. We used to make music back then, not read stupid manuals and surf the net all day for solutions on how to make costly gear we bought work like the seller promised...:-)

I would like a SPdif or AES stereo input/output on coax. Not important. Ill find some box with adat and spdif/aes in/out on it, with aes multichannel digital on it, and hook it up to the Aurora. Aurora has 16 analogue in. 16 analogoue out. 16 AES digital in. 16 AES digital out. All of them can be used in one go. No turning off analog ins to use digital ins like on the 192. Nope - all ins and outs are active all the time. Aurora 16 replaces 2 Digidesign 192s....sounds better...works better...got it new for half the price of a new 192. Unbelievable. Fantastic.

Its perfect. No learning curve. Hook up, turn it on, make music, get happy cutomers, make money, buy house where the sun shines. Become happier - see how that makes your family happier.

Before buying this new one, I got an offer to buy a second hand unit that had been used for three years on remote recordings. That is - on the road for three years with no problem. Unit like new. Bought the new one because model is a tiny bit upgraded. Variable trim pots and some say with a slightly better headroom. Never heard anyone have issues with their Lynx stuff, cards, converters, nada. No probs. And I know quite a few users that have had their Lynx stuff for years. Silly me who didnt join the club earlier.

No single product in the entire business will come close to give the same value for money as the Lynx Aurora 16 VT with PT card. NOT CLOSE. Its a Rolls Royce priced as a Ford Fiesta. Or Chrysler Neon for you US guys.

I hope thay are as good as I claim, but I do not think I will ever need them. Read a lot about issues with FW card for Aurora...seems to have been some probs there and support people seemed to have a stronge urge to find foults in the customers computers and everything else except in their Lynx FW card. I hope this is history?? Anyway - the support people at Lynx seemed to have tried to help. The geezers at Digidesign support never could do anything else for me than try to help me pronounce my serial numbers and registration data better. Funny.

Have it. Will buy another a bit later on.

Recording Engineer, sound designer, musician since 1987.

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