Radial Workhorse 500 Series Rack.

[badgrrmmr]

Any one have/used one? Care to share your thoughts? Any other 500 series racks that are worth looking into? (besides the api stuff)

Cheers,
Ryan.

[mylesgm]

My usual reply is build a GroupDIY 51x series case. You can find info at classicapi.com
I've built two, they are very solid, with dual sets of power rails and also cheaper.

[audioio]

I would expect that most racks are OK for most modules. But Radial is trying to push its version with a proposal for a special pinout. Same with the Purple Audio rack. These allow one or two extra connections for things like DI in, or compressor side-chain access. The Radial and Purple use the same pins for this (not that there are a lot spare!).

As yet, only the 8-slot Radial with the mixer seems to be available. I think: why pay for a mixer I'm not going to use? The extra pins for beefier power rails, which some vendors of 500-compatible modules are using, makes the Group DIY one attractive, but there's no option for additional I/O which a few modules might offer as well.

So the Radial would be out for me, and then it's a hard choice between an API, Purple or GDIY.

As they say on the internet, YMMV.

[Bent my VU]

My usual reply is build a GroupDIY 51x series case. You can find info at classicapi.com
I've built two, they are very solid, with dual sets of power rails and also cheaper.

How much did the GroupDIY build end up costing?

[ChrisW]

Yes, I have one of the newer API 6 slots and it's hard to fault it IMHO.

[Jason]

[quote="mylesgm"]My usual reply is build a GroupDIY 51x series case. You can find info at classicapi.com
I've built two, they are very solid, with dual sets of power rails and also cheaper.[/quote]

A big yes from me too. Very easy build.