Keep the RME, believe me it's a league higher than M-audio.

If it's only for monitoring, you could go with a decent but cheaper DAC. Like Scottaculous said the M-audio one is a good option.

If it's really pristine quality you're looking for (and not only for monitoring), you'll be looking at much higher prices...

well it's just for monitoring right now, if I'm going up in leagues I'll probably be getting pro-tools

well I'm going to check out the M-audio converter then
just wanna know one thing, is it an external converter I should be looking for? my guessing is that I connect the converter to one of the adat ports and go from there...right?

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Originally posted by davedresden i suggest getting the gabriel & dresden prog-a-minute. in 3 easy steps you too could change the face of dance music. batteries not included. - dave

btw the superDAC....does it support regular phono-plugs (red & white) for output (also known as RCA-contacts)

that's what I need for monitoring

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Originally posted by davedresden i suggest getting the gabriel & dresden prog-a-minute. in 3 easy steps you too could change the face of dance music. batteries not included. - dave

You don't NEED RCA outputs.

If I remember well the Super Dac has balanced XLR out and unbalanced 1/4" jacks. So all you need is a convertor cable. Easy to make, or cheap to buy.

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Originally posted by Vizay hmm okay a little question for the few of ya out there owning a hammerfall-card how do you monitor on it? I just got my card and I tested to monitor with the phono-cables that I connect to the S/PDIF port (not the adat one but the pin one) I can hear the sound but it's like LTS of noise too is it even possible to monitor directly from the hammerfallcard or do I need to get optical stuff to do this? (like a mixer and such)

I had to actually get an external mixer and for my analog lines, split them through patchbay and run a set to rack mixer and second set (so to say "fixed" lines) to RME. Patching sucked, so I decided to try out Tascam 1884 - got it set up last night and still working out various bugs. softare is version 1.0 so you can imagine what a pleasant thing it is to have - reboots for no aparent reason, Cubase not sensing internal clock, mixer runs in HUI (not native) emulation mode... Ughh... I only hope tech support at Tascam is worth talking to. RME is great my only gripe was lack of passive monitoring and no phantoms. I had Presonus FireStation but that was just complete junk for recording purposes - stand alone only... For $650??? I don't think so...

Hammerfall is great, especially if you're using Cubase - as it is supposedly native and really shines.

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Originally posted by Scottaculous I own a RME HDSP9652. I fined tuned the latency down to 3 ms.

How'd you do that?

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I've decided to gor for an alesis AI-3 as expansion

http://www.alesis.com/products/ai3/index.html

is this a very bad idea?

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Originally posted by davedresden i suggest getting the gabriel & dresden prog-a-minute. in 3 easy steps you too could change the face of dance music. batteries not included. - dave