Haha you guys aren't helping at all! The Apogee AD/DA16x stuff is being looked into as well as the SSL. I have 2 money channel ins, so I'm looking for 4 outs minimum for stellar monitoring and printing.
Just quickly, as far as treatment goes I'm pretty good. The place I moved into was designed to have minimum reflection points and I have 18 4" panels in the problem areas and my entire back wall is a panel with a QRD style diffuser behind me. My main A/D is an API A2D. The rest is Presonus of which I have a few Warms and clean pres going in. I need to cover drums, so the obvious True/880/ISA828 are being looked at after this DAC purchase gets sorted out. 880 seems smartest to get for the extra perk of the "pretty good" A/D. I'll expand to something like an Aurora when I get the mojo pres. My live room is also treated with diffuser/panel combos and my mic selection is decent (121, 441, m201 ect). I'm mixing on HS80Ms and have Dynaudio BM8s in studio B. I think Focal Solo6s are going to be my next investment for monitors. So that's about where I'm at as far as what I think I should invest in.
Prism is flat out of my budget right now, my friend here in Sacramento has an Orpheus and said it's hands down the best he has heard and he recommended Lavry as a close second as he was using the blue series prior to that. I THOUGHT I was getting a D-Box (used), but the item was already on some sort of reserve even after Guitar Center took my money and said it was being sent to me. Needless to say that was an utter nightmare. I've gotten my money back, but I'm trying to work out a deal with them on something else. I'd prefer to skip RME altogether other than their PCIe to get me all hooked up.
But I know with the whole converter top brands you get to the point where you're just splitting hairs for converter quality. Money-pit dude... Sheesh.
