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APOGEE ELEMENT Thunderbolt Audio Interfaces

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Like Mama always said, it’s what’s on the inside that counts. Solid advice when choosing friends or baking a pie, but it turns out it’s a good philosophy for designing audio interfaces, too.

When it comes to pro audio, Apogee knows a thing or two about making products with high-quality insides. Continually delivering impressive spec sheets has required paying keen attention to every component in the signal path, every time. Apogee does a good job on exteriors too — the Duet and Quartet set standards for interface design.

However, if we had to pick, we’d probably all agree that an interface’s sound is more important than its looks, or even its physical controls. So would you forfeit the latter for the sake of affordability?

In a bid to make top-notch audio more financially accessible, Apogee recently introduced the Element Series; a family of three that claims to deliver no-compromise pro audio standards, yet is disrobed of hardware control and exterior

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