Does anyone have any information regarding these converters beyond what is available on the website.

Removing the converters from the rather nasty PC environment should in itself improve the performance of the lynx products. Their literature suggests that performance has been improved beyond this.

In any case, the aurora looks interesting but there is a complete dearth of information about the thing. I wonder how it will stack up against other external converters from RME, Apogee and even Mytek.

Here's a picture. It's obviously a rackmount. I sometimes get sneak peaks at stuff either through info from the manufacturer or a test drive. I generally don't get any contact from Lynx. I've tried a few times.

BTW, is anyone going to NAMM? It'd be neat if we could have NAMM reports.

I can't find the flippin' MSRP on this unit on their website. Does anyone know it?

Retailers have the aurora 8 priced at $1800-$1900. The aurora 16 is about $2500.

I am very curious about this thing because most of the product in that price range (ADAT HD24, lucid, digi, RME) seems to suffer from some sort of subtle sonic weakness/less pleasant signature compared to something more expensive like say a mytek.

The higher-end converters are out of my budget and simply not worth it to me since they'll soon become obsolete. People are already talking about 384k sampling rates and claiming "its more like analog." Plus to to my ears HD24, lucid, RME, and lynx sound good enough to get the message across and that is what really counts.

Read about it here: http://www.mercenary.com/lystau8andau.html

A little off topic but related:

I just received the Creamware A16 Ultra and have not tracked a session with it yet. What I have done is:

I ran a standard TRS 1/4" from output 1 to input 1.

I ran a track out via lightpipe and back in.

I ran the new track through the same path.

I continued until I had 20 tracks, all conversions of the previous conversions.

In the end, track 20 was 210 instances of A/D and D/A conversion.

The 20th track sounds good, beyond simply useable in fact. I did have to normalize the tracks so that volume wouldn't affect my decision as the Creamware lost about .2dB every conversion. Don't know if that was on the output, input or both.

There was a group of engineers years ago that took a standard DAT machine and a first generation copy of a song, and ran it into another standard DAT machine using this same method 20x. They wanted to see if there really was something to worry about with copyright protection by being able to use the analog inputs to copy their work.

In the end, they played back the different generation copies, and many of them picked the files that had been most converted.

I know folks like to nitpick about converters, and the Lucid stuff I have is a more open sounding unit with adjustable analog controls as well. But you could record and mix an album just fine with this Creamware A16 Ultra if the music is good and it will sound good.

Just a thought, I'm like anybody else and would love to hear that Lynx stuff as well. I bet there is a difference, maybe I could run this guitar track through it 30 times and acheive the same sound.

War