Prism Sound Begins Shipping Orpheus

Prism Sound, a manufacturer of premium-quality interfaces and converters for the recording and broadcast markets, have begun shipping their new multi-channel Orpheus Firewire computer interface to dealers and distributors worldwide.
The first international pre-orders - to a variety of locations including France, Italy, the Ukraine and various locations in the USA and Canada - have already been fulfilled.
First unveiled at last year's Frankfurt Musikmesse, Orpheus is named after the mythological Greek musician whose prowess on the lyre created music so beautiful, it charmed wild animals.
A 1U, 19-inch rackmount device, the 192kHz-capable unit offers eight simultaneous balanced analogue inputs, four line-level jack ins and four auto-sensing mic/line Neutrik combi jackets that will accept either jack or XLR connectors.
The high-quality mic preamps allow the signal at the mic-level inputs to be boosted by up to 60dB (in 1dB increments) and each analogue input has its own adjustable patented Prism Sound Overkiller built in, to prevent signal overloads before the A-D conversion stage.
There are also a swtichable SPDIF/AES-EBU stereo digital input and an eight-channel ADAT optical input, allowing the Orpheus to handle a maximum possible total of 18 simultaneous inputs to any computer-based recording system hooked up to the unit's main Firewire connector.
A built-in mixer is included, driving eight analogue outputs, allowing users to monitor input signals with zero latency, insert analogue summing mixers or control multiple stereo or multi-channel monitoring systems directly from Orpheus.
One of Prism's respected high-quality, low-jitter digital clock sources is also built in, along with synchronous sample-rate conversion and SNS noise-shaping, permitting accurate real-time reclocking or sample-rate conversion or high-quality dithering of 24-bit material down to 16-bit for CD mastering.
Orpheus is fully software-controllable via a cross-platform control application (available for PCs running Windows XP or Macs running OS X), and is therefore ideally suited to the computer-based musician who wants to work with the flexibility offered by modern computer-based DAWs but wishes to maintain the quality of signals from analogue recording sources or processors in his digital production environment.
The interface has a recommended retail price of £2,750, excluding VAT in the UK, and $4,995 in the USA.
For further details and international pricing, contact Prism Sound via: www.prismsound.com or visit the company at NAB 2008 in Las Vegas at Stand N5935.
Founded in 1987, Prism Sound, which is based in Cambridge, manufactures high-quality professional digital audio equipment for the international broadcast, film, music production, manufacturing and telecommunications sectors.
(KMcA/JM)