What's preventing you from getting a Helix Stadium (if you really want to buy it eventually)?

[Sascha Franck]

Fwiw, defenitely not gonna purchase a Stadium in the next weeks or whatever, but unlike what I thought for a while, I can pretty well see myself owning one during the course of the year. I defenitely want to streamline some things in terms of live equipment, and as much as I love my two hybrid setups, maintaining them and remembering how everything is the same or similar between setups and gigs is quite a chore, so having a single unit that'd work for everything would be just great.
Another reason being that neither the GT-1000s nor the Tonex Ones I'm using with each setup are any fun to create patches with (adjusting patches to suit a certain gig however is just working marvellously great, thanks to - dare I say - global blocks), but creating patches is actually something I love to do as well - and using plugins isn't as much fun as having all of that stuff in a physical unit (readily available for live as well).

Would still like to see some better FX before making a decision (a great dynamic filter of whatever sorts would *so* much float my boat).

 

[Digital Igloo]

May I ask why that is? I mean, it surely can't just be the input stage, right?

The entire hardware architecture has been redesigned from scratch: A/D/As, circuitry before A/D and after D/A, patented high dynamic range circuits (now on all analog inputs and some outputs, not just the Guitar In), board layouts, clocking, power supply, mic pre, buffers/op amps... Can every person tell a difference? Probably not, but the one with ears we trust absolutely do, and they tell us.

Cynics might tell you a Focusrite Scarlett (or even UA Apollo) sounds just as good as a Lynx, Mytek, or PrismSound interface (or Burl if you want character) with high end analog summing, but those who can recognize the difference—especially with many active channels—are too busy working to bother convincing them. And this is coming from a big fan of both Focusrite and UA interfaces; I recommend them often.