Best A-D converter

I can use my SBM-1 anywhere, and enjoy recording nature, and human sounds. I recently recorded a Thunderbirds airshow.

You need to chat with some manufacturers about this, such as Bel Canto Design, Apogee, dCS.

My Sony super bit mapping "SBM-1" has a 20 bit ADC, and outputs 16 bit, in either 44.1 or 48 kHz (and uses the super bit mapping, which I feel sounds better than not using it). It only works with the Sony TCD-D8 portable DAT recorder, though. It sounds great, and I've recorded vinyl with it, and transferred it into Soundforge 4.0, where I'm removing the "ticks and pops". I'll burn it onto a CD, along with some other recordings I've made with my Audio Technica microphone.

Thanks for the kind words, BMP. I do enjoy the portability of the TCD-D8 very much, for remote recording with my microphone, but I doubt Dynamo necessarily needs portability.

Or Cindy Margolis in under garments...her voice alone does it for me.....The recordings I've made with my AD converter are alomst that good...well, not really.

those are DACs, not ADCs, snook.

I think it's the latter; did you try it?

Too bad people such as Michael Hobson don't just turn over all those great master tapes to anyone, cause we could then try them with your ADC. But he won't, and they aren't even his to turn over...One question: Who are these people that say, "Oh, I ONLY listen to mastertapes"? How could you possibly own all the great master tapes? It's like saying, "When I fly, I insist on solely using Nasa's Space Shuttle...I wish all of you could experience it, but oh well, there are only so many seats...Afterall, it's much better to fly in orbit, than to merely fly at 40,000 ft, with the rest of the peasants..."