Universal Audio Apollo Twin MKII

Universal Audio Solo Desktop Thunderbolt Audio Interface

The Apollo Twin MkII crams a lot into its modestly sized back panel, including an optical input, a Thunderbolt port, line and monitor outputs on quarter-inch jack sockets and mic/line inputs on combi-sockets.

UA’s updated Apollo Twin packs in more DSP power and improved audio performance.
The packaging for Universal Audio’s latest audio interface uses three words to explain its appeal: “realtime analog recording”. It’s an odd description, if you think about it. After all, doesn’t recording always take place in real time? And how can recording to a Mac or PC be analogue in any meaningful sense? Yet, if you don’t take it too literally, it’s a neat summing up of UA’s USP, which is all about recreating not only the sound of classic high-end analogue gear, but also its immediacy.