Not to be too nit-picky, but I do believe that most people would agree that the Whirlwind
DIs do sound good, but those with a more refined ear will agree (myself included) the
Radial does sound a bit better. However, the Radial (ProDI) does cost almost twice as much
($99.00) as the Whirlwind ($59.00). For some, the price will be justifiable. But the
Whirlwind does have more robust switches (3 of 4 of my ProDIs have cracked plastic PAD
switches, whereas my Whirlwind switches all remain intact) and the somewhat unique ability
of converting speaker output to DI levels.
The bottom line for me is that no
one has ever returned a CD or demanded their money back at a club because the keyboards
were brought to +4 with what they opined to be an inferior DI box. If that were the case,
I'd need to replace all my DIs with Avalon U5s. :-)
MattLTH