Ok I don't want to get flamed so I will leave out the name of the converters in this thread. However I can tell you that neither one is a Lavry.
I have a converter (Brand Z)..in the same quality ball park as Benchmark, Apogee, Mytek, and Lynx level. I was very happy with it, but I needed more channels. Therefore, I went to Brand X that gave me more A/D, & D/A. What I notice was Brand Z had more top end sparkle, while Brand X has more of an even sound with low’s mid’s and high’s. Many have said, oh how much better Brand Z was because it captures the top end better, and it sort of made sense to me for a while. But when I started thinking about it, if you have a violin playing in front of you, do you hear this high end sparkle? For me the answer is no. It is even sounding across the board. It almost seems that some converters give you a different representation of what you would naturally hear that was sung or played in front of you. Personally I don’t like this. I like a true representation of what is in front of you. Yeah the mic has a proximity effect you can work with, and the pre also has color. So I like to stop there and hear what I hear in my headphones. I never heard Prisms either, but many have said, that it unveils something in the top end. But is it a more accurate representation of what you hear in your headphones (If you stayed in analog) or is it exaggerating something? What are your thoughts on this?