![]() Apogee supply a USB-C cable that incorporates a USB-A adaptor if you’re connecting to older machines without USB-C/Thunderbolt ports. ![]() To the rear of the Duet are three connections: two USB-C ports one for connection to your Mac (or Windows) DAW, the other for additional power if your computer USB ports aren’t delivering enough. The underside is rubberised to minimise slippage on your work-surface. It looks superb, as is the feel of the rotary encoder. The only control is a single 55mm rotary encoder which doubles as a push-button for switching between headphone/main levels and input levels, and is under-lit with delightfully dulcet blue LEDs. It’ll match your MacBook Pro or iMac nicely. The Duet 3 measures about 155 x 100 x 17mm, and presents with a sleek piano-black upper surface with silver Apple-esque underside. Apogee were somewhat cosy with Apple back in the day, and take a similar approach to design. But in Apogee tradition the AD>DA conversion is impeccable, and easily integrated via USB.Īs always the Duet 3 is the epitome of design. Like many manufacturers these days, Apogee has integrated onboard DSP functionality, which I’ll get to a little later. Version 3 of the Duet is on my bench today, and I gotta say, it brings a bunch of surprises. They’re ace!įor those simply requiring a couple of inputs, headphones and monitoring, the Duet series is ideal. In fact, I ditched more prestigious converters and interfaces years ago for a couple of Apogee Ensembles and never looked back. ![]() ![]() Units such as the eight-channel Ensemble and dual-channel Duet brought Apogee audio conversion to the masses. By the mid-2000s the company began distilling its secret sauce into smaller two- and four- and eight-channel devices aimed toward budget conscious recordists. Back in the day (read: last century), the company’s military-grade audio converters were top-shelf, deep-pocket units designed to offer some of the best available analogue-to-digital (and vice versa) conversion possible. Apogee has held a lead in the digital audio conversion game for decades.
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