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Originally Posted by
henryrobinett
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Wow. What was it not doing? Price drop to $500. I wasn't even thinking of buying one, but it never worked at all, or it never did some specific thing at all?
You're probably thinking of the FirePod on that price drop. The FIREStation was discontinued a couple years back. Essentially, it was an m-Lan device which meant it never, ever, EVER worked properly with the computer. The only kernel panics I ever had on my Macs were caused by this device. PreSonus blamed Yamaha, Yamaha claimed everything was fine. Apple asked "What the hell is m-Lan?". A nightmare of passing the buck if there ever was one. PreSonus should have done an outright recall and bit the buck on this product. I doubt many of the original purchasers are terribly loyal to PreSonus now.
I thought the hardware itself was nice for the money: decent sounding pres, decent converters, etc.. I definitely noticed a negative difference when I went to the 828MKII. But, my MOTU has never given me problem one so I gladly moved on.