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so my rme 9632 died on me.. what next? please help
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klippel
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my beloved rme 9632 card (r.i.p) died on me..after playing back audio in slowed down speeds only lately she now does not play any sound at all..
but an end is always a new beginning, so: what next?
i work totally in the box (daw), so i only need another card with two channels and not multiple in/outs.. and internal for low latency.
i want really good d/a conversion, i did like the rme a lot, but i´ve read the lynx l22 has superior converters? anybody who can share some knowledge on this: rme converters vs lyx l22? and how about the drivers, rme is rocksolid, what about lynx drivers..?
also will there be a follow up to the lynx soon as it is already 8 years old??
another thing is, the new rme cards, do they have better converters than the rme 9632? i did not find any information on which card is which converter..
any alternatives that are a even better also welcome 
peace
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klippel
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Posted : Jul 12, 2010 22:07
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ups, just noticed i accidentally posted this in the wrong section.. mods please this move to the equipment section!
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Colin OOOD
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Posted : Jul 12, 2010 22:53
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Warp Brain Records
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Native Instruments Kontrol 1 is a great USB 2.0 interface.....Good converters, I use it for live and DJ. keep an eye on that one. |
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klippel
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Posted : Jul 13, 2010 08:53
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colin,
the benchmark dac looks promising indeed. but i would still need a new soundcard with rock solid drivers and a low jitter output to get my signal properly into the dac right?
or would you (or anyone) suggest using the dac as an allround usb audio interface with top notch conversion? but then what about stability and latency issues, i think i read the dac is usb 1.1 !!???
anybody here using this baby and can comment on how to use it get the most out of it?
another thing colin, how is you i7 machine performing, been dreaming about upgrading recently (before the soundcard died..) what cpu/board did you get and how is the performance compared to a core 2 duo ( i assume you were using before, right?)
is it worth the big money it still costs??
cheers,
tim
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PoM
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you could get a rme digital card and then buy a d/a converter, so you get nice drivers and software + good d/a,depends how much money you want to spend? but you could be fine just with a rme soundcard ,convertion is very good already , it get expensive just for a little improvment (i know just the rme ff800 convertion and it s seems it s their best sounding card thought, you can check the spec in their site,thd, dynamic range ,freq response at different sampling rate...might not be always true but better dac have better spec) .have no idea about the lynx but i would stick with rme personally, good drivers, i never have crash with my 96/32 ,rock solid. |
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klippel
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Posted : Jul 13, 2010 14:13
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i was really happy with the rme card all the time and that is the backup plan.. just get a new 96/32. but how about all the rme products.. do they share the same d/a chips? what about the rme pcie - series, they are newer but do they have the same converters?
getting an rme AND a benchmark is too expensive for my taste.. the benchmark on its own would be ok though...
so my open questions are still: what about the lynx l22 and can you use the benchmarc dac as all in one solution? (which i could use for my living room setup as well then!)
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Suloo
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klippel
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cheers for the feedback guys!
first thing:
with rme "digital card" in combination with an external dac... which exact rme model are you taling about there?
i´ve read the same about the aurora. the lynx l22 is the internal solution that has the exaxt same converters like the aurora at 699€! and i only need the two channels, so this would be the cheapest and for me best way to get the lynx d/a conversion.. have you heard them lynx converters against rme zork? only thing is the stability of the audio drivers with the l22.. have read they are not as good as the rme ones..
oh and by the way. 1k€ is already a lot for the benchmark. so please no suggestions that are a lot more expensive than this please.. ;-)
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Colin OOOD
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Posted : Jul 13, 2010 15:27
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On 2010-07-13 08:53, klippel wrote:
colin,
the benchmark dac looks promising indeed. but i would still need a new soundcard with rock solid drivers and a low jitter output to get my signal properly into the dac right? |
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Seems to me you can use this on its own:
"The DAC1 PRE achieves transparent, audiophile-quality playback through a true plug-and-play USB DAC."
The blurb says USB jitter is compensated for, leaving the USB input as jitter-free as any of the other inputs.
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| would you (or anyone) suggest using the dac as an allround usb audio interface with top notch conversion? but then what about stability and latency issues, i think i read the dac is usb 1.1 !!??? |
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I can't find any info concerning which USB variation it uses, but since there's only stereo audio in one direction I don't think it matters. Since it's a class-compliant device and uses no drivers, the latency will be determined (AFAIK!) by Windows itself.
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| another thing colin, how is you i7 machine performing, been dreaming about upgrading recently (before the soundcard died..) what cpu/board did you get and how is the performance compared to a core 2 duo ( i assume you were using before, right?)
is it worth the big money it still costs?? |
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The i7 is going like a dream. I have the i7 930, a Gigabyte GA-X59A-UD5 mobo, 6GB Corsair DDR3, an 80GB Intel SSD system drive and two 1TB data drives; I have had zero problems with hardware or software incompatability and the whole thing runs as smooth as silk.
Before I got this in April I was running an AMD XP3200+ CPU (single core) with 1GB RAM. The difference is night and day; because I had honed my working processes to maximum efficiency to get the most out of my old CPU, I feel now as though there are literally no limits to what I can do on the new computer. I have even got rid of the laptop that I was using as a spectrum analyser, making my workspace about 40dB quieter; SpectraLab now uses one core of the i7, leaving me 7 more to make music on! Projects that would glitch out at the maximum buffer size of my old soundcard now run with 3ms latency and <20% CPU. I'm in heaven. For me it was definitely worth it; even if you have a C2D system I think you'll still see quite an enormous performance boost. It all cost me just over £1500; not cheap, but I have a rock-solid, almost-silent megasupercomputer which will last me a long time; I can even give it an extra 50% performance boost in the future by dropping in the new 6-core Intel CPU and adding more RAM.
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klippel
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Posted : Jul 13, 2010 15:45
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On 2010-07-13 15:27, Colin OOOD wrote:
Seems to me you can use this on its own:
"The DAC1 PRE achieves transparent, audiophile-quality playback through a true plug-and-play USB DAC."
The blurb says USB jitter is compensated for, leaving the USB input as jitter-free as any of the other inputs.
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found this: http://www.benchmarkmedia.com/discuss/forum/dac1-pre-dac1-hdr/dac1-pre-and-cubase
looks like you basically could use it standalone.. would be really sweet though i am not sure about how well that really works..
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It all cost me just over �1500; not cheap, but I have a rock-solid, almost-silent megasupercomputer which will last me a long time; I can even give it an extra 50% performance boost in the future by dropping in the new 6-core Intel CPU and adding more RAM.
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damn man, couldn´t you have just said its overpriced and overrated tha i7 stuff.. how the fuck am i supposed to spend 1.5k on a pc AND 1k on a dac/soundcard whatever solution.. 
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Colin OOOD
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klippel
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