Hi Kevin. You have emailed me directly on this matter and I know you now wish to go with 25 way D's.
Blimey, this is a complex issue between DL's, Edacs and 25 way D's and I am preparing a note with the plus and minus points for each of them but it may take some time as I am involved in two SSL installations right now in the UK, which makes a change and I am grateful for the work for after some time without hardly any due to Covid issues etc.
You required about four patchbay front panels to match the colour you have there and I have those as you know but, the screws were the issue, which we have discussed, being 4:40 versions which SSL used to use for the Audioline jacks before they changed to Mosses and Mitchell (I'll explain the reasons at some point later).
All these connectors have their plus and negative points and more and more people are changing things on their SSL consoles these days it seems.
If anyone wants to get in contact with me directly about this for now before I wrote my opinions, feel free to do so.
At the moment, this will take too long to think and write about as free advice on here doesn't pay my bills unfortunately.