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8th November 2009
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Sep 2009
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Thread Starter | i dont have the money for a fireface okay, i know that the fireface card are possibly the best audio card, but i dont have 1500$ to spend. I want to know what are the best and cheap firewire card, right now, i have the fm-audio firewire1814, and it sucks really, i want to spend not more than a 1000$. What are my option?? thanks! |
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8th November 2009
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Dec 2008
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| high end? not really... whats the problem with the m-audio? driver? ... there is no sense in switching to an other interface in this pricerange soundwise.... |
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8th November 2009
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: europe
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9th November 2009
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Sep 2009
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Thread Starter | What? not its really not reliable, it always crash, always. I'm really suprise to receive this as an answer. Firewire 1814 is 500$ new, im willing to put around a thousand... Is fireface really the only option? |
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9th November 2009
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| Gear addict  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Va / NJ
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| For about $1k you can do a 2 part upgrade that will sound GREAT! First get a EMU 0404usb interface. You can find these used for as low as $100, new about $200. These are very good sounding convertors and in my experience the drivers are stable with Mac core audio. But the advantage of this interface is it also has SPDIF I/O. So next you need to find a used Apogee PSX-100. These sell in the $800 - $900 range. (I think these Apogees sound better than the newer Rostta series. I have both.) There you go, High End Apogee sound and still have the analog I/O of the EMU available at the same time. Plus you get midi I/O if you need it.
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: May 2007 Location: UK
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9th November 2009
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| Gear nut Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: No(r)way
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| Why is this posted in the High End forum? |
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9th November 2009
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| Gear nut Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: No(r)way
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 ) It was just my bad mood talking, totally unproductive.To the OP: you might get more relevant answers in 'So much gear, so little time' or 'Low end theory' (but i suggest don't post in both) (Another question to ponder is: are you sure it's the converters that are your weakest link? How about room treatment  )Good luck. | |
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