Hello you two! Thanks for these suggestions. I've already looked for the Fostex VC-8, seems slightly difficult to get hold of, but I might manage. :-) As for the ADA8200 I'll have a look. Warmly yours Julien ---------------------------------------- http://juliencoder.de/nama/music.html

On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 22:20 +0200, Julien Claassen wrote: Excellent homestudio sound, cheap switches, cheap connectors, absolutely bad power supply, as often mentioned by others and me, you can't mount it to a rack. The switching power supply of my Behringer mixer died after the warranty expired, it died for many other users too, because the capacitors used were for a lower voltage. This is a trick known by consumer protection, I never heard something about Behringer by consumer protection, but about the capacitor trick in general. I never had issues with Yamaha, Roland etc. pp., but always with Behringer. OTOH, I always would buy Behringer gear again, including the ADA8000, since the value-for-money ratio is ok. Non of my branded gear ever failed that easy as Behringer gear failed, but it was much more expensive. Current price at Thofrau for the ADA8000 is 199,- EUR. Thofrau gives a 3 years warranty, so you quasi pay 5.53 EUR each month, to get something that at least should last for 3 years. Since my sound card isn't well supported by Linux I don't have much recording experiences using the ADA8000, but it seems to be the most used ADAT device on this planet. If you wouldn't buy one device after the other, but buy several devices at once, you could haggle the price down ;), for Behringer gear just 10 Cents, but for a synth perhaps 20 or more EUR, so for a bundle it could be much money.