We need a new desktop computer here and will get another mac as I just have too much invested in that system to turn back, through my use of Logic Pro, various version of mac-compatible Lightroom and Capture One, and the fact that our phones, ipads, all talk to it. My own desktop is ok but its a 2013 and my wife has started to work with video editing and its getting a bit taxed by all of it. We're waiting for the new generation to come out with the new chips that are supposedly much faster than what the current generation has.
I should have invited you over to record some violin and had thought about it, as in addition to that interface I have a pretty extensive microphone collection, from stereo condensers to tube condensers, ribbons, old dynamic mics, you name it. The only problem was, the room I had everything set up in had horrible acoustics. Thousands of dollars worth of mics, ADC, and various plug-ins and outboard gear and all you'd hear was that awful room. It didn't have an audible echo, but everything in it sounded dead/flat and just ...off.