ADAT LX-88
One line in somebody else's advertisement is the entire paper trail this thing left.
Overview
Almost everything the archive can say about the LX-88 comes from a single sentence in an ad for a different product. The AX88 was AdB Digital's 24-bit, eight-channel analog front end for Yamaha's DSP Factory. It ran in the trade magazines with a closing line aimed at tape-based studios: "For ADAT equipped studios, check out LX88." That is the whole documented record. No spec sheet, no review, no price, no year. A manufacturer pointed ADAT users toward a companion box, and as far as this archive's sources go, said nothing else about it.
The fragment does tell you who the LX-88 was for. The AX88 ad pitches the DSP Factory route as an alternative to tape. The copy claims the system turns a PC or Mac into a recording and mixing environment "for less than the cost of one ADAT." So the LX88 mention reads as a bridge offer: if you already had ADAT machines racked up, AdB had something to sell you. Whether the LX-88 was an Alesis-built machine, an AdB interface for ADAT-format studios, or something else is not settled by any document in this archive.
The LX-88's existence is confirmed only by a cross-reference in a period advertisement, with no surviving documentation of what it did. Treat any listing that quotes specs as unverified until a manual or a period review turns up. The archive would rather say almost nothing than invent a multitrack around a name that appears exactly once.
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