Orpheus FireWire recording interface from Control Devices
Orpheus design brief was: Get Prism Sound quality conversion and mic preamps into a 1U box at a more accessible price point.
Sound quality just was not negotiable. Orpheus has the same no-compromise analogue front and back ends, with the same fully-balanced-throughout architecture, the same isolation barriers protecting the analogue from digital and computer interference.
Orpheus is a FireWire interface available from Control Devices is useful for personal recording and sound production, for professional musicians, songwriters, engineers and producers.
Orpheus is ideal for music and sound recording, production & monitoring, stem-based mastering and analogue summing.
Orpheus provides Prism Sound's renowned performance and sound quality in a dedicated FireWire unit compatible with Windows XP & Vista and MAC OS X 10.4x (Intel & PPC).
Orpheus has line, microphone and instrument inputs, good foldback and stereo or surround monitoring capabilities, ADAT and SPDIF digital I/O plus support for external MIDI devices.
Microphone inputs include MS matrix processing and high-performance digital sampling-rate conversion (SRC) is available for digital inputs or outputs.
Orpheus draws on Prism Sound's years of experience in developing digital audio products, including its range of audio test equipment, adopted by a wide variety of clients across the audio industry from pro-audio to consumer electronics.
This experience means that Orpheus is well-behaved both as a computer peripheral and an audio processor.
No-compromise, full Prism Sound audio quality Orpheus makes no compromises on audio quality. It is the result of years of research and development into digital audio conversion and extensive dialogue with Prism Sound's customers. Reliability is vitally important in professional recording.
Prism Sound has always made extensive use of precise software calibration techniques in its converters, pots and tweaks are always unreliable, so there are none.
The design team has gone to great lengths to minimise noise and interference, in particular hum.
All of the analogue circuits have galvanic isolation, while the unit's electronically balanced I/O allows it to handle common mode interference sources as well as enabling trouble-free connection to unbalanced equipment.
Control Devices provides the world's high quality performance audio products and technology solution.
Audio product solutions include analogue to digital conversion, de-noising solutions, mastering and professional program metering. Brands under management include Cedar Audio, Penny & Giles, Lundahl Transformers, PrismSound and Maselec.
10-Apr-2007