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

 

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.

 

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

 

What I found interesting was that Behringer UMC series interfaces got such favourable review

 

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

Watch, learn, understand, draw conclusion:

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. :-((

 

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

 

Presonus Quantum ES4 has this

 

Who gets an interface for its DA? It's widely known I think that that's not the problem. Isn't it all about the "gimmicks" like headphone out, pres, onboard mixing, number of ins/Outs, output level, latency, driver support and so on?
I saw Fred Again performing with a Behringer UMC. I'm sure dude can afford any interface.

 

Love my Behringer. Why pay more?

 

For quality.

 

Nothing Comes close to Topping DACs and Interfaces besides MOTU and RME Babyface, all in terms of clean AD/DA, Powerful headphone amps and low distortion, but for interfaces you intend to do more for recording while having good conversion is Lynx Aurora, Apogee Quartet, MOTU M4 and the Neumann MT 48...... the new UAD Apollo's are really great as well.

 

RME ADI-2 DAC is what I got indeed

 

The SSL interfaces sure tested well. I wish he'd had the SSL12 in that shootout because the extra features at that price point combined with how many times SSL ranked #1 or in the top class in various tests makes it a winner. I like how tactile everything is on the SSL. The Lewitt looks interesting though. Good video.