New Eurekea?

calaverasgrandes · Post by **calaverasgrandes** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 10:38 pm

Anybody else take a gander at the new Eureka from presonus? Its very very similar to the original one, but with a different faceplate. And much cheaper.

new one
http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/pr ... sku=500414
classic
http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com/pr ... sku=184130
I sure would like to hear one next to the original one. If its even 80% as good I'd like to get two of em.

allbaldo · Post by **allbaldo** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 6:21 am

Looks like they re-worked the eq, which would be good. The eq on mine kind of blows. The compressor is usable, and the pre works for some things. It'd be interesting to know what they changed.

calaverasgrandes · Post by **calaverasgrandes** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 10:38 am

in hindsight I wouldnt expect it to be better. Presonus has this weird marketing strategy. They come out with a great product. Than they make cheaper and crappier versions of it.
EG: Digimax/Digimax LT/Digimax FS.
1/2 rack blue tube/ 1/3rd rack tube pre.
I really like a lot of the better presonus stuff. I also feel some loyalty to them, my family being from Louisiana and all. Byt they really shuold trim back the duplicate products. I have no idea what differntiates all their firewire boxes for instance.
Ok, grumpy sunday morning rant out of the way, I go get coffee now.

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:23 am

The old on had 9 knobs on both sides, the new one has less, and it looks like a VXP.
It probably is just a VXP.

RefD · Post by **RefD** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:29 pm

i get the feeling that this is only the tip of the failberg.

i will let trodden elaborate on the shaft.

Shane Michael Rose · Post by **Shane Michael Rose** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 10:33 pm

i would spend that money on marketing of my service.

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:14 am

shaneoconnor wrote:i would spend that money on marketing of my service.

If that gear list of yours is accurate I'd say the odds of that are 50/50.

sad iron · Post by **sad iron** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:17 pm

Brian wrote:
shaneoconnor wrote:i would spend that money on marketing of my service.
If that gear list of yours is accurate I'd say the odds of that are 50/50.

Ouch.

I'd be curious about what the differences are in this pre. I bought the original Eureka several months back and like it pretty well.

Jeff White · Post by **Jeff White** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 2:49 pm

If you want to buy a Presonus product, I would look at the MP20, the M80, the ACP-22 and the ACP88.

That said, I believe that the original Eureka is a single channel from the M80/MP20 with a comp and EQ.

I've seen MP20s going for under $275. $70 and 15 minutes of swapping out the chips for Burr-Browns (plug-in, totally easy) dramatically improves this preamp. Obviously the M80 will cost four times as much to replace the opamps. These preamps sound good on their own for home recording, but again, the BB mod + Jensen trannies (so I hear) make a huge difference.

Jeff

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:40 pm

sad iron wrote:
Brian wrote:
shaneoconnor wrote:i would spend that money on marketing of my service.
If that gear list of yours is accurate I'd say the odds of that are 50/50.
Ouch.

I'd be curious about what the differences are in this pre. I bought the original Eureka several months back and like it pretty well.

Ha haaaahhh! The friendly "poke of death"!

I bet most pieces of gear could benefit from that mod.
Chip swapping makes an improvement, but, it can only get so good, but, then how good does it need to be.
?peers into his other presonus gear for chips to swap, and laughs, to himself, an evil laugh, like Dick Dasterdley?

b3groover · Post by **b3groover** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:00 pm

I did the swap on an M80 I had for awhile. It helped tremendously. Never did the transformer swap, though.

ctmsound · Post by **ctmsound** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:06 pm

Keep in mind the ADL-600, that pre is amazing.

calaverasgrandes · Post by **calaverasgrandes** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:07 pm

ctmsound wrote:Keep in mind the ADL-600, that pre is amazing.

wasnt that designed by anthony demaria labs? hence the ADL part of the name?

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:45 am

calaverasgrandes wrote:
ctmsound wrote:Keep in mind the ADL-600, that pre is amazing.
wasnt that designed by anthony demaria labs? hence the ADL part of the name?

Exactly

pixeltarian · Post by **pixeltarian** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 9:22 pm

I hate PreSonus. and focusrite.
I have no good reason for this. I just do.

so I'm sure the new one sucks, but that means absolutely nothing coming from me...

glad I could help.

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