Anybody want to trade an Apollo for a Symphony?

You caught me at the wrong time, or I might have gone for it.

Nope. Not at all. I’ve talked myself out of it, though. I really like the Apollo workflow and the thought of pocketing $1100 and having an Apollo Duo with my satellite is tempting. A little more every day I accept that getting cuts really doesn’t have anything to do with the sonic quality...I could do what I do with a Clarett. But ultimately, I know me. I don’t think I could stand thinking I wasn’t at the top of my game.

are you not using that Svart box as your AD/DA anymore?

Right now I use it for the 7-8 channels going to my sumbus...since dumb Apogee makes you use 1-2 for the monitors.

Metric Halo does this, too. It's annoying, isn't it?

Indeed... Apollo plus Svartbox or Apollo plus Burl has been a winning combo over here

extra DA chips are expensive, when you just need 2 more channels. if you can save $10/unit and are producing 20,000 units, how much are you're saving?

Also, you gotta remember that the Symphony was designed back when big studios used a console for monitor outs, so it just needed regular line outs to feed a console. it wasn't designed for consumer usage without a big 24+ channel console connected to it.

well, when you go with DSUB as your IO connector, you kinda have to deal with banks of 8.

I seriously tossed and turned for months wanting to go Apogee, but decided workflow was more important for writing and later down the road I can use better converters to get in and out of the box if I chose. The new Apollo black boxes are much better than the silverface I had. I can actually use it without using a better converter to get in and out, however I will! Lol

I've still got my old silver face Apollo. And it still sounds just fine to me. I don't blame you, JK.

I guess I must be in a different camp. I went through the Apollo BF 8, 8P, and 16 and although they sounded fine I never liked having to have a separate console window open behind my DAW. If I would have needed to track with plug-ins I'm sure it would have made a difference, but the only thing I ever used during tracking was some reverb or delay for the vocalist. Moving to the Symphony was like a breath of fresh air for me only needing to have my daw window open. Granted, I specialize in singer/songwriter/demo type of work so I rarely track more than three and on rare occasions four tracks at a time so running a low buffer has not been an issue for me with the Symphony during tracking. I also sum through a Dangerous 2Bus+ and before adding the 2x6SE module to my 16x16 I fed the monitor output of the 2Bus+ to a Dangerous Source so I never had to give up 2 of my outputs for monitoring purposes. Regardless we live in a great time for recording in that there are enough options to meet just about everyone's needs and budget and I don't miss my old Roland 1680 recording system at all. .