Non – Interface 8 Channel Mic pres to ADAT

Name	Claimed Gain (in dB)	DI's	ADAT Input (and D/A)	ADAT Outs	Line Out Format	Sync	W/C Ports	W/C Termination	Price USD$
ART TubeOpto 8	64	2	Yes	1	1/4"	ADAT, W/C	In and Out	None	490
Audient ASP800	70	2	No	2	DB25	W/C	In	Switchable	849
Audient ASP880	60	2	No	2	DB25	W/C	In	Switchable	1199
Behringer 8200	60	none	Yes	1	XLR	ADAT, W/C	One - In OR Out	?	298
Crane Song Spider	66	none	No	2	Unbalanced XLR	W/C	In and Out	?	7999
Focusrite Clarett Octopre	57	2	Yes	2	DB25	ADAT, W/C	In and Out	?	700
Focusrite ISA 828 With add on A/D card	60	4	No	2	DB25	W/C, Dante	In and Out	?	3360
Focusrite Scarlett Octopre	50	2	No	2	TRS	W/C	In and Out	?	400
Focusrite Scarlett Octopre Dynamic	50	2	Yes	2	TRS	ADAT, W/C	In and Out	?	600
Midas XL48	60	none	No	2	DB25	W/C	In and Out	? Claimed fixed	898
Presonus DigiMax D8	50	2	No	1	TRS	W/C	In	?
PreSonus DigiMax DP88	60	none	Yes	2	DB25	ADAT, W/C	In and Out	?	800
RME Octamic II	54	none	No	2	TRS	AES, W/C	In	Switchable	1799
RME Micstacy	76.5	8	No	2	XLR	AES, W/C, MADI	In and Out	Switchable	4549
RME Octamic XTC	65	4	Yes	2	Only Phones?	AES, W/C, ADAT, MADI	In and Out	Switchable	2649
TASCAM Series 8p Dyna	52	2	No	2	TRS and DB25	W/C	In and Out	Switchable	500

For those asking about the Grace M108 and the NEVE 1073OPX these were technically interfaces and I may cover them some other time, but I’ll say it again that I do not like what seems to be interfaces added as an afterthought. Who makes the drivers? Can you add more units and still live under ASIO?

Gain was very hard to nail down, claims are written in many different ways and reviewers, even at SOS seem to have different ways of stating the available gain. Doublecheck my numbers!

Some Wordclock out is also thru. Some are actually one jack which can switch between in out and thru. Not 100 % sure what the difference between out and thru is, though I suspect “out” means generating word clock and thru would mirror the wordclock input.

This is still a confusing subject. I own a Scarlett Octopre Dynamic, and am not sure if I need to use a terminator on the output of it as it is the last device in a chain.

I also own three Focusrite Octopre MKII’s which have only a wordclock in and no way to defeat the termination. Kudos to Focusrite for having both in and out with the newer models and I am assuming, no longer having the termination issues that can ;lead to so much trouble. On previous episodes of dropping in at pipelineaudio, I have lamented on just how difficult this can make a multi unit setup, in my case, having to buy 20 year old word clock distribution modules!

Audient ASP880 – Separate line input that seems to be after the mic pres available on DB25

Was looking at Grace 108, but to my surprise it actually had an ASIO driver. Will look at these another time.