The rosetta 200 is the newest twochannel converter in apogees impressive. For wintel machines, windows 98se, me, 2000 and xp are supported. Used apogee rosetta 200 audio converter guitar center. Apogee s rosetta 200 is a 2channel ada converter that is capable of resolutions as high as 24 bits and 192 khz. View and download apogee rosetta 200 white paper online. The 800 is a quality unit that flat out makes my recordings sound better, and given apogee s reputation, im not surprised. Do you think the quality of ad conversion in the minime is equal to the rosetta 200. I like that it works whether it is attached to a mac or not. I compared apogee rosetta 200, apogee mini dac and benchmark dac1 with my home systems and liked the rosetta 200 best. After installing the apollo, and hooking up my synths and mic inputs, i found myself using more of the ua plugins than just delayreverb. Like the rosetta 800, the 200 features premium apogee ad and da conversion, 192k sampling rates standard, optional expansion cards and core apogee technologies such as uv22hr, and softlimit. Rosetta 800192k apogee rosetta 800192k audiofanzine. Great river me 1nv 2 summit audio mpe 200 stereo mic preeq.
Apogee rosetta 800 with pro tools expansion card reverb. Complete with firewire xseries expansion card installed relisted. Im in a situation where i can get rosetta 200 with xfirewire card easliy and relatively cheap. Apogee rosetta 200 with big ben or ua2192 3d audio inc. Well, in the meantime im looking at the apogee rosetta 200 with the big ben vs the ua2192. Apogee rosetta 200 this highend stereo converter usefully includes a firewire option, george shilling plugs in his redhot cable. My situation is not that good at the moment, im using maudio fastrack 8 for working, which get the job done, but i think rosetta. Its capable of up to 192khz24bit ada conversion, has word clock bnc io, and is expandable via adat or aes io connectivity. Apogee s new converter builds on the reputation of the original psx100 and rosetta units, upgrading the sonics and adding a pile of new facilities, including sophisticated jitterreduction processing and samplerate conversion. These two will bring your cd, computer files to the next. The gearbox recording studio paramus bergen county. There has its apogee, sure, i adi encountered in many pros studios, france and the us.
Apogee said to me yesterday the only step up sonically from the mini dac was the symphony. For audiophileyou will get absolute details, timing and a well presented sound stage. Apogee created a bangup converter with the rosetta 800. Apogee electronics corporation hereby declares that the mini me, to which this declaration relates, is in material conformity with the vcci class a standard. The rotary controls seem to be very sensitive as regards level change versus position, and the. Declaration of conformity australia apogee electronics corporation hereby declares that the mini me is in material conformity with annzs standard requirements. I fell by chance on comment prcdent notice global i have a rosetta 200 to the mix for 1 year.
Apogee rosetta 200 with big ben or ua2192 i have done a few month worth of research and just ordered my adcd today and cant wait til it gets here. This item is in good condition with normal wear, including some scratches on the top of the unit that wont be visible when racked. So my thinking of alternative would b 2 get the apogee 200. Declaration of conformity australia apogee electronics corporation hereby declares that the mini me is.
The one that got me was while using the da to feed a monitoring chain at the. They measured the exact same amount of jitter on both configurations using an audio precision sys2722. Used apogee rosetta 800 with pro tools expansion card. Im in a dilemma and i would like to hear your opinions on this. Usedapogee mini for sale compared from ebay, craigslist, amazon. Is the fidelity the same and the rosetta just has more of an expanded feature set. The pdf documentation doesnt specify what version of usb. Apogee mini dac this device complies with part 15 of the fcc rules. The io buffer setting found in most audio software is one of the most crucial, but often ignored, settings in a macbased recording system. To use digitalthrumode, set your mini dacs input selector to usb connect any twochannel digital device like apogee s mini me, trak2, or rosetta, and you have just usb enabled your favorite ad converter and interfaced it with your computerdaw.
I was thinking of buying an apogee minime, as i would like to have a nice. Neve 1073 vs stock preamps apogee duet and midas venice f16 console. Best hardware to use with protools 7 the gear page. I compared my apogee rosetta 200 running first as master with my digital interface slaved to it. Soon after that, apogee broke new ground in the realm of ad conversion, and theyre still considered a. Apogee rosrtta 200 daad converter for sale canuck audio. The legacy converters affected are ad16x, da16x, rosetta 200, and rosetta 800 with the xsymphony option card installed. Either via a next day hr or a day packet service depending on the item.
Then add one thing, to make the best possible sound, how do we triturations and falsifications, eq, compressor, reverb etc. Patricks day sale take 15% off thousands of listings for a limited time. This compact unit from apogee offers highend preamplification and conversion, along with a. All, in putting the apogee rosetta 800 up against the venerable digidesign 192 io, which do you think is the best multichannel converter. World famous, well known in recording industry and now you can have it at an affordable price. The rosetta is detailed, open and yet musical with good transient attack and well rounded musical decay. Wave series, the korg dw series and the prophet vs, just to mention a few. I might be putting ferrari parts on a toyota with the rosetta 800 costing almost four times as much as the digi 001, but i challenge anyone at 2444. Avalon u5, adesign reddi, phoenix audio nicedi, apogee rosetta 200, apogee mini me, vovox cables.
The latest in thinking from apogee on stereo 24bit192khz ad and da. Apogee s own thunderbolt offering at the time for symphony was stupidly expensive. Using this in place of the dat machines analog to digital conversion seems to preserve more of the qualities of the mix so it sounds like what i have up on the board. Based on apogee s track record, though, id imagine it will be. If you want a pre ad combo, the apogee mini me ad is very cool. The apogee support team is constantly updating the knowledgebase. What normally is for me an ongoing process throughout a mix. The following modern instruments were sampled with. Does not include manual, but one can easily be found online. I switched to a mac mini and could really use my firewire port for storage, so i was on the market for a thunderbolt interface. Skip to main content skip to footer site51657751 used 1657751 apogee rosetta 200 audio converter.
The latest in thinking from apogee on stereo 24bit192khz ad and da converter systems, the 200 starts off with many of the features and the same converter quality as the rosetta 800 8channel unit, while adding full channel metering and midi io and spdif connections. Apogee dac rosetta 200 with xhd card adda converter. Operation is subject to the following two conditions. The mini me can be used with a macintosh running os 9. The apogee electronics rosetta 800 192k is an analog to digital converter in the form of a rack mountable piece of gear. Home modifications apogee mods apogee rosetta 800 mods apogee rosetta 800 mods. On the other hand, the apogee rosetta 800 192 version is half the price of the prism sound ada8 widely regarded as one of the very best multichannel dual converters on the market and while the ada8 might have a small quality advantage edge, the rosetta 800 is no slouch. The apogee rosetta 200 is a computerbased device, and as such contains. Akai professional mpk mini mkii 25key keyboard midi controller. It may help to share with you some of my previous dac evaluations i completed. Drivers were not supplied, so first and foremost, i downloaded the drivers from apogee.
I also compared my dac slaved to the big ben and black lionss microclock mk2. The result is a premium digital recording solution that is. Apogee electronics introduction apogee electronics rosetta 200 is a two channel analog to digital and digital to analog converter that features the same premium quality signal path as its big brother the rosetta 800 as well as enhanced digital functionality that makes it suitable for a wide variety of applications in the modern digital. If you need to change this setting, you will need to quit the maestro software, then change your setup to avoid one of the conditions listed above. Apogee rosetta 200 vs benchmark dac1 we are thinkin of getting the other end but reluctant on movin out the dac1, though there isnt a adc to come til who knows when. This used apogee rosetta 200 192k comes with a power cable. Both are rackmounted, 24 bit, 192khz adda converters, with the 200 providing two audio channels and the. Apogee rosetta 200 ad da converter audio asylum trader.
Apogee rosetta 200 vs digidesign 192 da conversion test. View and download apogee minime owners manual online. When choosing a buffer setting, a compromise between the latency through the application and the amount of computer processor power accessible to. There are a ton of possibilities with the apogee electronics rosetta 800 192k, but i use it mostly for converting digital audio in a pro tools hd system. The rosetta 200, apogee s successor to the psx100 and rosetta ad namesake, delivers the quality of the popular rosetta 800, in a 2channel adda solution. I would be curious to hear headphone addicts opinion of the mini dac vs the duet 2 abd i did an ab of the mini dac vs the lavry 21 and found the apogee mini dac won out. Founded in 1985, apogee initially designed filters, and later, armed with this expertise, their converters were soon regarded as the best of the breed. Apogee mini me vs the apogee rosetta 200 is the conversion the same in these two units. It can be used as a standalone converter with fairly sophisticated audiorouting capabilities or as part of a front end for digital audio workstations.
Apogee electronics shows gearwire viewers the rosetta 200 and rosetta 800. Apogee rosetta 200da vs benchmark dac1 recording forums. Apogee rosetta 200 w x firewire card 24bit192khz ad da converter very clean. Phoenix audio nicedi, apogee rosetta 200, apogee minime, vovox cables. Apogee mini for sale 39 ads for used apogee minis used. The rosetta 200 converter, apogee s successor to the psx100 and rosetta ad namesake, delivers the quality of the popular rosetta 800 in a 2channel adda solution. The rosetta 200 is the newest twochannel converter in apogee s.
Find used apogee mini for sale on craigslist, letgo, ebay, offerup, amazon and. As the owners manual points out, apogees first products were portable converter units. This provides the exciting option of interfacing nonusb digital devices with your computer. Like the rosetta 800, the 200 features premium apogee ad and da conversion, 192k sampling rates standard, optional pro tools hd, mix and firewire expansion cards and core apogee. In fact, their early forays into digital audio especially in the area of filters solved many of the problems that plagued early digital recordings. Back to conversion, theres also no way i can afford a n apogee ad16x da16x combo, the rosetta 800 is already a huge investment for me. It has all sorts of connections in the back for adat, aes, and analog. The minime comes with a 12v dc power supply usb does not provide. I have a roland 2480 and would like to use the apogee as the front end to the 2480 for all my analog gear via a compact mixers main outs to the analog ins on the rosetta or.