Audio Interface | Fireface 802
Updated: May 12, 2022
As the name implicates, the Fireface-based interface, and in addition to being RME's first stand-alone external FIrewire device, its also the first ever FIrewire 800 IEEE 1394b interface on the market. This doesn't mean, however, that you cant use the Fireface with a Firefire 400 (OEEE-1394a) interface: the Fireface is completely comparable with the 1394b based in terrace is o significant. Well in keeping with many RME's other products, its possible to connect multiple FIrefaces to the same FIrewire Busess - up to three in fact - but only Firewwiere 800 offers the necessarily bandwidth to so so. SO in a nutshell if you'll only ever want to use one FIreface Fireweire 400 is fine, If you want to use multiple FIreface.
Audio Interface RME Fireface 802 | Epic Sound Quality
Over the last few years RME have established a reputation (rep) for high end products in the desktop digital audio workstation market, with a range that encompasses audio interfaces in the Hammerfall series, the ADI series series of A-D and D-A converters, and the quad mic and other mic microphone pre-amp's. Given this fairly non-complementary product line-up, it was only a matter of time before RME combined elements of all of these in one product, and that's exactly what's happened with there latest offering, the Fireface 800.
Audio Interface | Fireface 802 | First Stand Alone Firewire Device
As the name implicates, the Fireface-based interface, and in addition to being RME's first stand-alone external FIrewire device, its also the first ever FIrewire 800 IEEE 1394b interface on the market. This doesn't mean, however, that you cant use the Fireface with a Firefire 400 (OEEE-1394a) interface: the Fireface is completely comparable with the 1394b based in terface is o significant. Well in keeping with many RMEss other products, its possible to connect multiple FIrefaces to the same FIrewire Business - up to three in fact - but only Firewwiere 800 offers the necessary bandwidth to so so. SO in a nutshell if you'll only ever want to use one FIreface F
400 is fine, If you want to use multiple FIreface
Audio Interface RME Fireface 802 | Epic Sound Quality
Equipped with the latest low latency A/D and D/A converter chips, all I/O's operate at up to 192 kHz and reach -10 dbV, +dBu, HiGain (equivalent to + 2 dBV, +13 dBu and +19 dBu for digital full scale).
App Outputs can be used for ASID Direct Monitors (ADM) purposes.
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