This is a question possibly related to that below regarding DAW I/O. I too, finally bit the bullet and bought my 8000 this week. Orville and 3500DFX are going away. Question of best I/O brings up quality of converters on 8000. They seemed pretty darn good on Orville. But, for those of us with high-end converters (IE Apogee…), or even mid level, are they THAT good? Reason I ask is because I am now tempted to use 8000 for additional ADC duty. If I have a signal I can send through 8000 ADC (w/o EFX), does this make sense? Are the converters that good? Real world exmple: I am running stereo guitar signal (preamp direct) into 8000 and out w/ EFX via AESEBU to DAW. At at same time, I am micing cabs into another preamp which will be dry but needs ADC. I could send the signal out of 8000 analog into Apogees and preamped mics into Apogees. Or, I could just send the miced signal into Analog 3&4 of 8000 and send them through (dry) via FW with the effected signal. Question is: how good are 8000 converters? I could spend a lot of time A/Bing them. But, I figured somebody out there already knows this. Thx!
