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Echo Audiofire 2

FireWire audio interface from Echo belonging to the Audiofire series

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Published on 01/26/07 at 04:23
Best value: Excellent
I wanted a simple map trs but can all do to make the computer music with a laptop. I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 (Centrino Core2 Duo T5500, 1Mega of ram).
Usage: register a Repette run loops, get the ides.
I use it with 2 preamps TLAUDIO 5051 and two Neumann TLM 103, Wave Lab, GigaStudio, Cubase and a Korg D1000 DtDs.
Nothing to say here, I / O 96Khz stereo audio, ASIO2 Midi, GSIF for GS3, headphone output and I / O spdif .... is complete and compact.
In theory that is a pearl

UTILIZATION

Installation is quick, setup seems easy, the manual ... I admit I 've ever opened a textbook in my life, it is beautiful on CDrom ... crap, I will open it even less.

Implementation: NUL! I have this card because an other person does not russian run on a Fujitsu laptop. And this time it does not work the first shot either at home, it is necessary to update the drivers ... same, the card works on a two stroke, it patina serious when we move from what is 96Khz 44.1Khz Gnant to mastering.
She screwed up some recording 96Khz (Click audio, jumps), I took him by repeating and bache read it on a loop in the middle of the reboot 44Khz.Alors rpeter afternoon, the recess. ECHO .. thank you!

Otherwise when she walks it's good quality but will reboot in some rebootter ... I do not know if that is the driver, or FireWire or the OS (WIN LSD3, 5 for me) but there is one thing that stuck besides routing the audio console is incomprhensible and useless (it must go into conf panel to affect the headphone output for example).

Sorry but I put a ZERO point until I understand what has my mistake (if that is I who made the error).

GETTING STARTED

They are stable in zero (lol!) j'epre and they will be put quickly update
I use WaveLab CubaseSX3, Gigastudio3 hair that turns on a PIII with a SoundBlaster drivers and ASIO4ALL (GS3 hand of course)
Ct latency, it's going to 2ms to 50ms but the audio plays aparaissent 10ms in 96KHZ.
Conclusion when it decided to walk, the sound is good.

OVERALL OPINION

I have been prt for 15 days, it is convenient and has good size to go with a Notebook PC (external power supply fits easily in the saccoche)
However, I have seen sound cards work much better the first and even when I'm not new to the Contents (ATARI, Maxi64, Guillemot ISIS, SoundBlaster, luna2, MOTU MK2, Tascam FW1884).
Whereas if I'm a ball and the card works well when a 200 that is a good quality price, but if like me you put in a 200 Roros Bouzin that you Bouzille an APRS PM to work ... that is the scam of the year, the rescue Julien Courbet!

I am looking for a sound card that will make you forget, I do not think I bought a AUDIOFIRE2 of ECHO sitt. I prefer to put more money and have a card "that makes" ... Unless I change my opinion, After all, it is well known but there is that the sausages that do not change.

Ah, and then I forgot: it heats (with external power supply, I can not understand or when that is the nice box that serves as aluminuium radiator)