Hello Guys,
I have been using the AD and DA 16x for a while now (maybe 2 years) with the HD card in them.
The HD card came installed inside the AD and DA by the guys in Mercenary (thank you guys!!!!) and I haven't had much issues about them.
The only real complaint I have besides the metric screws (which I found a way, like Mr. Manning to make the DB25s "stay" in place) is that when running the Apogee's in Standard Routing (so PT sees them as one 192 so you can make hardware inserts), sometimes PT doesn't locate them properly and if its ran in the Advanced Routing, sometimes the order of the units change, meaning that PT sometimes thinks that the DA is connected first than the AD and vice versa. But thats probably because I have the jumpers set to always on and I guess it just depends on the order the units power on.
Changing to another Apogee Converter...
I do have a complaint about the FW stuff. A friend of mine bought one of the mini-DAC for his PC. Even though it says it works with windows, IT DOESN'T. The XP wasn't able to detect the FW interface of the mini-DAC. We tried it on my mac and it worked flawlessly. My friend had to run an M-Audio Fast Track Pro (LOL) and take the SPDIF output from it and plug it into the mini-DAC.
I do have to say, the converters on the mini-DAC sound really good!. That's why it's worth to have the M-Audio just running the info digitally to the Apogee.