Re: New interesting Apogee audio interface for Mac

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On 7 sep 2007, at 20.49, Jeff Larson wrote:

> A breakout cable.  Who the hell thought that was a good idea?

Every poor musician. It's a cost effective design.

> I like the minimalist aesthetics but having a pound of wire
> hanging off the back sort of ruins it.   Your plug/jack
> interconnect will be dangling in space (don't move guitarists!)
> or splayed out over a surface.
>
> The spec sheet says there are only 2 DAC channels meaning
> that while you have 4 inputs (2 XLR and 2 1/4") you can only
> use one pair at a time.  So, you've got a $500 2x2 interface,
> a guitar plugged into 1 jack and a hydra of 3 useless cables
> flapping in the breeze.  Odd.

Well, it is "stereo" ;-)  I suspect that the bang for the buck is  
rather to be found in audio fidelity.

Per
(happily sticking with his stone age Multiface + analog mic pre amp  
in the studio and the Fireface400 for live work)