Visited the AETA Audio labs and saw the MIXY

[jlykos]

Interesting product, but why do they make such an expensive piece of hardware look like a external harddisk with some knobs and a display? 

It is a really slick-looking box with a great form factor.  What else do you want it to look like?  I mean, it's a three-channel mixer with a billion features.  They did the right thing by having as few external controls and instead pushing most of the stuff to the digital menu system.

Anyway, AETA Audio just e-mailed me today and said that the MIXY is currently being tested by Shoreview Distribution and by Dale Pro Audio (former Masterpiece A/V, if memory serves me), and that if the tests go well, that you can purchase the MIXY from them in the next few weeks.

Also, they wanted me to reiterate the fact that they have implemented a 96k master mode, which means that it can pass through and convert a full 24/96 signal.  Tres cool.

[Eigenklang]

hmm,

maybe I dont like the design because I am a bit old-fashioned. Recording is just a hobby of mine. So what also counts for me is the design factor. If I want to see a box that looks like a modem, I open up some switchgear cabinet.

Also, I grew up in a total digitalized world. Maybe thats why I like "old-fashioned" (but in terms of design ageless) gear like Stellavox or Nagra. Or why I actually dont like scrolling through menus / interpreting pictograms on small displays.

But the fact that the three pots are so close together would seriously disturb me.