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Grace Design

Grace Design m701 Audio Interface

Price$5,353.00

An audio interface built to order: a 2U chassis with eight slots for converter cards and two for the card that connects it to a computer or a network. The builds here run from 8 in and 8 out to 32 of each, over USB, Dante or Avid DigiLink, and three of them add eight mic preamps. The chassis alone already has AES and ADAT, 8 channels each, plus S/PDIF, word clock and a low latency cue mixer. Any other mix of cards is possible, priced as the chassis plus each card: ask us.

Analog I/O: 8x8
Interface card: USB
Ordered from the maker when you order, then shipped usually inside two weeks and always inside thirty days. Shipping
Thirty days from delivery to send it back. Returns
Specifications
  • Chassis 2U, 19 inch rack
  • Converter slots 8, each an 8 channel ADC or DAC card or a 4 channel mic preamp card
  • Interface slots 2, for USB, Dante, Ravenna or Avid DigiLink
  • Built-in digital I/O 8 channel ADAT, 8 channel AES3, 2 channel S/PDIF
  • Capacity Up to 64 analog and 340 digital channels
  • Sample rates 44.1 to 192 kHz
  • A/D dynamic range Over 120 dB, A weighted
  • D/A dynamic range 125 dB, A weighted
  • Latency 0.5 ms ADC to digital out at 48 kHz, 0.2 ms with the minimum phase filter
  • Cue mixer 32 x 8
  • Control Front panel, or GraceNet in a web browser
  • Power Dual redundant supply, 90 to 250 V AC, 75 W max
Grace Design m701 audio interface, front
Grace Design m701 Audio Interface8x8 / USB Price$5,353.00
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