Comments about:

ADA8000 Octuple préamp with Adat converter

You can't beat it!
at least for the price... very honnest machine.
save your money to buy a great guitar or a moog!!!
you'll get more difference worth your money...
BUT if you're a professional studio maybe it wouldn't look serious!
and it would't be a good commercial strategy!

probably the best price for quality on the market.
after that price, slight improvements make price rise in an exponantial curve!

This is an exceptionally high-value high-quality product.

However there is one annoying thing to keep in mind:

The offered 8 XLR outputs are not THRU for your 8 XLR inputs. The 8 XLR outs source the signal from the ADAT In. So if you need that THRU configuration, you'll have to loop it back from whichever device your sending your ADAT out to.

Good luck

ok, so this unit does 8 audio to adat. Now does someone make a cheap box that does nothing but converts adat to firewire?