Drawmer's new A2D2 is now available for your analog to digital desires. Plus, its name reminds me of R2D2, and he was the helpful robot in Star Wars while C3P0 just complained a lot. Don't let that alone be the basis for your decision whether or not to give the Drawmer A2D2 a shot.

The A2D2 excels by providing two simultaneous stereo outs with separately manipulable sample rates from 44.1 kHz all the way to 192 kHz. This allows you to maintain a high quality main output with another low resolution copy at the same time.

Fast features:

• Accurate 24 segment peak reading LED bar meters shows incoming signal level from -50dBfs to 0dBfs plus separate overload LEDs
• Dual input configuration allows either a fully variable input level from -2dBu to +28dBu via front panel rotary controls or 24 turn precision presets for a fully calibrated input
• Each digital output has selectable word length of 16 or 24 bits, with automatic dither generation
• The internal low jitter clock generator is Grade 1 AES standard
• External clock input
• Three word clock outputs to allow the A2D2 to act as master clock generator
• Burr Brown analogue input stages
• The A2D2 uses a linear power supply to minimize interference with the internal clocks

Brad Lunde, the President of Drawmer's US distributor TransAudio Group told us:

"A good sounding A to D converter that delivers two different digital outputs at different sample rates is unique. I don't know of another converter that delivers a 96 or 192 main output and a 44.1 copy at the same time."