Old converters worth picking up at a good price

I still use my old Apogee Rosettas 200s and 800s, they work fine and sound great. But, you have to keep in mind that their drivers don't work with any current OS, so you're forced to freeze your system at a certain point. No problem for me, but I can't upgrade anymore and a lot of newer and upcoming plugins won't work for me. Which is not necessarily a bad thing!

My HEDD 192 is now 15 years old and I've yet to hear an A/D/A I prefer - it's just so musical sounding - great for tracking, mixing and mastering - what's not to love.

Only 2 channels of course.

The MOTU has ADAT I/O, so if you wanted to go with an AD/DA16X, you would only need a few optical cables to get it hooked up.

That said, if portability is a concern, it might be kind of annoying to lug around an AD16X and a DA16X, plus interface, laptop, PSUs, etc.

FWIW, I was also seriously considering an AD16X before I bought my old Aurora 8. In retrospect, I kind of wish I had went with the Apogee, as I never really liked the Aurora. But I'm now totally happy with my Lavry Blue.

Might be worth looking into some of the older Myteks, the aforementioned HEDD, or even the old Lucid stuff.

It is new - all the bells and whistles, just no PCI cards or w/e

Another vote for the Lynx Aurora 8/16 converters.They run HOT but still sound great.

Thanks. didn't know that was possible.

Almost all of these you see used are beat to hell. I saw even saw one pair with fire or acid damage and it still worked

Not bad but really only designed for HD and HD native

If you can find some used Forssell converters, they are excellent.

I have one HD I/O 16x16. Sounds great but I did replace the stock fan as it was a bit too loud to be in the control room.

Whuddya think of the BLA? That's the $300 stereo interface box yeah? 

Think I still have an old Mytek kicking around... stereo A/D... believe its 20 bit? 44 & 48kHz only. If anyone really wants it they can have it for the cost of shipping & a bottle of whisky. Save it from the landfill. Seriously. 

Been a few years since I last used it for anything, and it still sounded good... but that's kinda the problem... its good but not THAT good. Not against most modern stuff. Not good enough to deal with some of the shortcomings & workarounds.

And honestly last time I plugged it in..? One channel showed digital black & the other had some fizz way down at like -87dBfs... just barely enough to register. Caps? Power supply issues? Who knows its from like 1998. Ancient! 

I thought about the old Apogee 16X boxes a few years ago and quickly reached the same points mentioned above... namely "support" and lack of. Like the old Mytek there's not many people who want to fix this old junk. And hail Satan... if the piece in question needs drivers? From the windows XP days? 

Why? 

IMO most interfaces & converter boxes these days sound really excellent... in as much as what goes in comes back. Given all the tech hurdles of dealing w/ old digital, especially having lived through it I just can't see a reason to go backwards. Not unless there was a reason to run a legacy DAW system. 

FWIW my main box is a Motu 16A and, once everything is level matched? I can't honestly really tell the difference between a live mix off the SSL XL desk and a captured playback. How much "better" can converters get?