mbox from digidesign...help?

I have the M-Audio USB Audiophile. It sounds good and is an improvement over using the headphone out, but I am always looking for improvement. I'm curious about the Apogee Mini-Dac, or other ways to take a digital feed from my computer and convert it to analogue.

I had forgotten about the Apogee Mini-Dac. Great little unit! Well worth checking out.

Tom.

Going through a catalog last night, I came up with a couple of additional options that you might want to look into:

Aardvark USB3
Edirol UA1X (this seems like the best option, to me)
Edirol UA1D
UA3FX
Edirol UA5

The UA1X sells for under $80, and is a 16-bit/44.1 kHz USB audio interface with stereo RCA I/O as well as digital SPDIF output (and a headphone minijack). The UA3FX and UA5 seem to offer better A/D-D/A converters, but might also incorporate features that you don't need.

And the more I look into it, the M-Audio Audiophile USB does look like a very nice unit, though again, it is packaging some features that you don't really need (though not to the same extent as the MBox).

Good luck, Tom.

i have a power g4 and a digi001. i was running os9 and protools 5.0. I recently upgraded to 10.2.8 with protools 6.0 and the protools doesnt work. does anyone have any suggestions?

Tombowlus - I modify the Transit to have coax S/PDIF output, so the Toslink can be eliminated. I also can add a Superclock2 to stabilize the clock.
Steve N.

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