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Oh cool I hadn't seen the Maya U5, looks like a good cheap option for digital capture! Have you verified it will capture bit perfect?
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I just noticed higher end focusrite usb devices for external xlr microphone capture feature digital ins on the 6 models and up and it lists captures up to 24/192. Since I was thinking about getting one anyway for a usb mic I was wondering about perhaps getting a higher end one and using the digital in for LD captures.
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The Focusrite's look nice, I've seen a lot of people use them for audiophile vinyl capture. The preamps on them are supposed to be nice and warm. Please let us know how it works if you grab it. I will be putting together a capture howto thread coming up so it'd be nice to have a list of devices that are verified to do bit perfect capture.
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I know the stated purpose was to use a microphone, however slightly related thought: Is "nice and warm" a good thing in the context of fanres? Of course it won't affect digital, but let's say it's also to be used for analogue track captures, I think warmth always indicates some amount of distortion/alteration of the raw audio to create that warm sound, which kind of conflicts with the idea of preserving it as-is.
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At that price you'd probably almost be better advised to add another 200 EUR and buy a used RME Fireface 800, which also has 119dB dynamic range and 24/192 as well, except it has way more inputs and outputs.