B80 Mothership
< Burl Audio >
by Marc Alan Goodman
< Issue 84 >

There seems to be a new trend developing in audio converter design. Up until recently, engineers considered converters to be part of the digital or computer side of their rig as opposed to the analog side. Concurrently, just like the computers they’re directly connected to, converters become obsolete every couple of years, and their designs focus on advancing the handling of information on the digital side (better clocking and conversion). This began to change with the release of the Universal Audio 2192 (Tape Op #39) in 2003. For the first time, you could purchase a converter from a major manufacturer with a highly developed analog front-end.