The Best and Worst Audio interfaces of 2024... Tested!

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  1. AudioEnzyme

    AudioEnzyme Producer

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    Looks like a decent shootout and pretty thorough too!
    Opinions are welcome :wink:

     
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  3. luigo

    luigo Noisemaker

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    My personal favorite is the MOTU 8PRE because I got it for a hundred dollars dude said the drivers didn't work, it works fine on Windows 11.
    Every now and then I need to open the control panel to set the sample rate before opening my DAW but that's the most issues I've had with it. Best purchase I ever made.
     
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    mild pump milk Russian Milk Drunkard

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    I put cleanest sine at 64 bit float and almost maximum loudness and gaining at different levels, from one interface into Audient iD14 mkII and it showed captured harmonics at -80dB, not queiter.. So, cleanest AD and DA, but seems dirty analog console preamps
     
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    What I found interesting was that Behringer UMC series interfaces got such favourable review
     
  6. BlackHawk

    BlackHawk Platinum Record

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    Because the do input = output. 100% correct. You can't be better. Every decent Interface does this.

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    So in a sense this "shoot outs" can tell you something about the surroundings and gimmicks on interfaces, but not about "sound quality". It's time to kill all those snake oil and myth sellers, all these brainwashers and all these "expert"-idiots. :-((( This all works only because colse to no one pays attention when it is about physics and math in school. :-((
     
  7. tzzsmk

    tzzsmk Audiosexual

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    RME Babyface wins again with latency (at around 11:05),

    for me, essential thing about interface is direct monitoring with Pan knob (when recording any stereo sources like drum overheads, piano, synths...) the sound is completely different) and Phase switch (when recording multi-mic sources, vocals and woodwinds/brass instruments it makes a huge change),
    it seems none of those new interfaces allow that, and excuse "use a mixer" is a last century advice lol
     
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