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Let me know if you want to sell your Fireface 400...
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No chance.... I LOVE IT!!!!
haven't had a chance to A/B the DAC1/FF400 combo; so I can't give you a decent subjective/definitive answer to that. My mate's got one and while it is definitely a quality DAC; its perhaps a little clinical for my tastes. I prefer my FF.
I like things to sound 'RIGHT', but perhaps erring on the warmer side of 'RIGHT'; and by the sound of your negative comments on the Elgar, perhaps thats how you feel as well? As I make my music pretty much exclusively within LOGIC DAW with VI's and an ACCESS virus C rack I like to have a bit of flavor... not too much as to ruin the mix but just enough to keep me engaged in the music.
I got my triple.fi's in the mail 2 days ago and I haven't been able to take them off. They sound utterly fantastic
through my FF400; I didn't know you could get that sort of presence in IEMS. Now if I could only get my ipod to sound like that
maybe they will even save my neighbours from my KRK monitors and sub once in a while. Funnily enough; since I replied to you last time I have changed my mind on the RSA hornet and have ordered a Pico without the dac, as you already know, I have no need for the dac option. I don't have a laptop so it would only be techno duplication any Head-fi'ing I do at home will be through mac MAC and FF400. So by the time the pico is ready for delivery I should have had the IMODS done in order to take advantage of it. LOD is the only way to go; just chaining a good amp stage (pico) to a bad one (headphone out) seems a bit redundant to me.
Now for your solution... I think the FF (400 or 800) would be really well suited to your purpose. Its very stable (a must for live gigging), built like a tank (ditto), transportable from studio to location (even operates while disconnected from the computer), the mixer/router edit matrix ROCKS (even has an internal bounceback feature) very cool for sampling anything that passes through your computer
)) and sounds fantastic. IMHO it is right up there with the Apogee gear, maybe not with their topshelf rosetta stuff, but close.
Also in my situation I always prefer balanced gear if I can.... way too much computer gear (large CRT monitors and even a couple of old effects units (roland space echos) I know that quality shielded unbalanced cables can be decent, but quality XLR always wins for me.
What other gear do you use? and what sort of tunes do you spin/produce?