Silly question HD I/O 16x16 digital

[Darryl Ramm]

No there is no double conversion (certainly not in the sense of A/D) happening to specifically worry about. ADAT/SMUX puts sample rate limits on the inputs that you might not otherwise be constrained to. The A/D in the HD boxes is certainly better than many of the cheaper ADAT preamps, wether you can notice that , especially over preamp differences, is another question. Your actual preamp and analog signal chain and microphone are all much more interesting things to worry about.

Any digital data conversions (truncation/extrapolation/sample rate conversion) will depend on the inbound data vs. session settings.

Darryl

[Nightworker]

Thanks all, that's what I wanted to know.

[Craig F]

there may be a SRC (Sample Rate Conversion) depending on how you clock your system.
I may be wrong buy I think the ADAT port on the digital cards can float/re-clock (SRC come into play) an incoming stream but the optical port on the chassis can not reclock on the fly
Some preamps with ADAT out can be clocked and some can't and have to be the Master Clock or be connected to a device that has a floating SRC input

[Darryl Ramm]

Yes, correct on the card vs. chassis SRC.

Darryl