Released over the past summer, the Apogee Symphony I/O may have had its AES thunder stolen by the announcement of Pro Tools 9, but this modular interface / clock source is no less impressive a piece of hardware — perhaps even more so now that it can interface with PT9 so easily. Basically, when Apogee's head of technical services Roger Robindoré says this is the best-sounding interface ever made by the same company that designed the Ensemble and the Big Ben, you have to take notice.

Roger gave us a rundown of the Symphony I/O's most important features, including it's flexible, modular I/O system, and the newly upgraded Maestro 2 routing and calibration software.