Audio interfaces

[Andrew Tarpinian]

Nothing wrong with motu. I switched to Universal Audio for the cool
plugins. Motu would be my second choice.

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 11:29 AM Peter Korsten <peter at severity-one.com>
wrote:

> Following the comments, I've been doing a little bit of research.
> Focusrite looks nice, but if you get the Scarlett range, it's a bit at the
> bottom end, especially in the mic preamps (which I won't use anyway). And
> USB 2.0 is 18 years old now. The Clarett offers better specs and either
> Thunderbolt or USB (2.0 and C), but is also considerably more expensive.
>
> So I came across the MOTU 8A: http://motu.com/products/avb/8a
>
> It has everything I need, doesn't have anything I don't need (like mic
> preamps), has a very good performance (if it's indeed as good as the 16A),
> and comes with Thunderbolt, USB 3.0 (also usable with 2.0), and an AVB
> interface, which is one of the many ways to do audio over Ethernet. Not as
> popular as Dante, but it's an open standard and in due time it should be
> possible to connect it directly to a PC (you can already connect it to a
> Mac).
>
> It's pretty new, so I doubt many people worked with it, and it isn't
> exactly cheap either (€829), but what do you guys think? I know that there
> are some happy MOTU users here.
>
> - Peter
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