Ed Abbott of Universal Mastering Studios on the ULN-8:
“The top-end extension, the linearity, the transient response and the low-end (especially!) out of the ULN-8 made our other converters sound like you had earmuffs on. No lie, our first reaction auditioning the ULN-8 against our previous reference A/D was that something had gone wrong with the reference box. We’d spent years testing each new converter and were perfectly satisfied with our chosen reference, but the ULN-8 just immediately blew it out of the water. I was expecting it to be good, but I was completely unprepared for a multipurpose single rack-space unit to sound like this does. It goes down forever, goes up forever, and there’s absolutely nothing in the way between the tape and what you’re hearing.”