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Prism Sound
Website:https://www.prismsound.com
Prism Sound is a British audio engineering company founded in October 1987 in Cambridge by Graham Boswell and Ian Dennis, two electronics engineers who had met at Rupert Neve & Company. It began as a digital audio research and development consultancy and moved into manufacturing, becoming known for analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters used in recording studios and broadcast facilities, as well as for audio test and measurement equipment.
Range & what it's known for
The first studio converter was the AD-1 of 1993, later renamed AD-124, followed by the DA-1 and the AD-2 and DA-2 with 96kHz support. The ADA-8 multitrack converter arrived in 2001 and its ADA-8XR successor added 192kHz in 2007, the same year the Orpheus desktop interface appeared. The Lyra, Titan and Atlas USB interfaces for musicians and project studios came from 2013, and the Callia, launched in 2016, is a DAC with a built-in preamplifier aimed at home listeners. The current pro range is headed by the ADA-128 converter, sold under the Dream name. A separate line covers measurement, from the DSA-1 interface analyser to the software-based dScope Series III and the dScope M1 of 2019.
Who owns it and where it's made
Before Prism Sound, Boswell and Dennis worked on DSP at Neve in Cambridge and helped create the first commercially available DSP console. The company bought the SADiE workstation business in 2008 and moved into the former SADiE building in Stretham, Cambridgeshire, which became its headquarters, and it acquired Imerge in 2010. Since 2019 the test and measurement side trades as Spectral Measurement, while the music division joined Audio Squadron alongside Tracktion Software.
The lineup in this catalog
Audio interfaces. Pricing sits in the professional and prosumer interface segment.
Who it's for
Prism Sound fits musicians, producers and engineers who record at home or in a studio and want converters from a company with decades of work in professional digital audio. The Lyra is the smallest entry, the Titan and Atlas add channels for larger sessions, and the ADA-128 is the modular step for facilities. Listeners who only need playback can look at the Callia instead of a recording interface.
Range & what it's known for
The first studio converter was the AD-1 of 1993, later renamed AD-124, followed by the DA-1 and the AD-2 and DA-2 with 96kHz support. The ADA-8 multitrack converter arrived in 2001 and its ADA-8XR successor added 192kHz in 2007, the same year the Orpheus desktop interface appeared. The Lyra, Titan and Atlas USB interfaces for musicians and project studios came from 2013, and the Callia, launched in 2016, is a DAC with a built-in preamplifier aimed at home listeners. The current pro range is headed by the ADA-128 converter, sold under the Dream name. A separate line covers measurement, from the DSA-1 interface analyser to the software-based dScope Series III and the dScope M1 of 2019.
Who owns it and where it's made
Before Prism Sound, Boswell and Dennis worked on DSP at Neve in Cambridge and helped create the first commercially available DSP console. The company bought the SADiE workstation business in 2008 and moved into the former SADiE building in Stretham, Cambridgeshire, which became its headquarters, and it acquired Imerge in 2010. Since 2019 the test and measurement side trades as Spectral Measurement, while the music division joined Audio Squadron alongside Tracktion Software.
The lineup in this catalog
Audio interfaces. Pricing sits in the professional and prosumer interface segment.
Who it's for
Prism Sound fits musicians, producers and engineers who record at home or in a studio and want converters from a company with decades of work in professional digital audio. The Lyra is the smallest entry, the Titan and Atlas add channels for larger sessions, and the ADA-128 is the modular step for facilities. Listeners who only need playback can look at the Callia instead of a recording interface.