[paulo m]

I have installed an MTRX with the 64 channel Dante option card and a Focusrite Red4 Pre (that has a 32 channel@48K Dante implementation) at a client´s studio. Works great, we send Dante (converted from Digilink) via the MTRX to the Focusrite and gets converted to Core Audio via Thunderbolt to the MAC and vice versa. Very powerful and you decide the combinations. It can be stereo, 5.1, 7.1, 7.1.4, whatever up to 32 channels. Channel numbers from 1 to 32 chosen by the user. No DVS needed. You can also easily have paths between PT HDX and Core Audio DAW´s with low latency, retaining HDX as the playback engine.

I think that the MTRX Studio biggest drawbacks is the lack of a Thunderbolt connection, AVID could have gone a bit further without keeping it exclusively within the Digilink realm. They would sell more units too, in particular for people that use other DAW´s apart from PT.

Of course the Source Nexus is much cheaper than the Focusrite, but it´s a different ball game too in terms of flexibility.