Hello,
Can someone please recommend me an audio inferface that can make use of Focal shape65 and Hedd Heddphone to their full potential.

4 channel input preferred but 2 channel is fine.

Price range below $1500.

For now, I am using Motu M4 for speaker & seperate headphone amp and dac (SMSL Su9 and Sh9) for Heddphone.

But I really wish that I can replace all of them with one device. Apollo Twin x seems to be a good option but I need confirm from you guys whether their headphone out quality is enough good for Heddphone. Is it impossible to replace headphone amp/dac with audio interface?

Thanks for reading and Thanks in advance for help.

 

Yes, you can buy the uad. It doesn't really matter. It is advisable to purely look at what you need and if this device can deliver.

Usually the Heaphone amps are good enough to drive basically anything.

 

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RME Adi 2 Pro has one of the best HP outputs out there as it drives both low or high impedance HPs, plus tons of great features such as crossfeed, built in eq, spectrum analyzer, the list goes on. Check some reviews to be blown away, but also the infamous RME drivers that work smoothly and outlive most of the other brands in terms of future support.

 

Not the Focusrite ones. If you use Pro Headphones with high impedance, and work like a pro keeping your levels reasonable in your DAW, Focusrite headphones output wont deliver, they are way too low.

I would look at RME, one the best and serious brand, without being overpriced.

 

RME Babyface Pro FS, or as mentioned ADI-2 Pro.

 

...or RME UCX II. After swapping it out from an original Babyface I had to reevaluate my monitoring volume as it gets really loud really quick.

 

I love that one, RME UCX II. The only con I see is that there's only one headphone output, and the price. 1.422,50 €

 

@Olymoon .. I no longer record bands or actually anyone besides myself, but in the event that I ever, do I picked this up for under a 100 bucks, just in case.

 

Seems good, how about the sound quality?

 

Ha, it's still wrapped in plastic, I haven't yet used it. In about three weeks I'll crack it open and plug it in to record a woman to sing a part of my vampire/alien conceptual album that I've started based on a friend's 3 year old daughter Polly who weirdly is into vampires for some odd reason. As soon as I use it I'll let you know.