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Originally posted by cryophonik Anybody have any experience with the Focusrite Saffire series interfaces? The RedNet-series looks pretty astounding, but probably waaayyy beyond most of our budgets. Well, mine at least - I've seen estimates of the RedNet 4 (bottom unit in the photo below) at around $5K.

It seems extremely interesting - I don't actually know anyone that has used it, but to me it seems to be clearly aimed at two groups:

1, Pro/Project studios that can now use Protools native at a fraction of the cost, rather than having to buy expensive and over priced DIGI interfaces.

2, Large scale Live sound companies, where the huge advantage is just having to run tour grade CAT5 multicores , which again is a fraction of the cost and far more robust than tour grade multicore audio looms. For instance, a 100foot 48ch tour grade balanced loom can easily cost $3000, where as an 8 core tour grade cat5 probably won't set you back more than $500, and will be way easier to maintain that the audio multicore.

They actually quote my former clients (Brit Row) as now using it which doesn't surprise me based o how much they used to spend on multicore audio looms.

The only thing I don't like about it is the reliance on gigbit switches for audio data protocols, which in my experience can be an utter fucking headache, and can often go wrong, even with professional grade equipment.

I've got 2 mr816x stacked, works flawless

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Absolutely right. Steinberg used to make some horrendous interfaces but they got it right with this one. Good mic pres, very good conversion and a shitload of I/O. The only downside is that is costs $700, and unless you need all that I/O, that's $450 more than the echo audiofire 4 or $200 more than Audiofire 8 both of which are comparable in quality and have pretty good mic pres as well.

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decided to go with the audiofire 8...

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Originally posted by DJ TL decided to go with the audiofire 8...

Congrats!

I noticed it doesnt have an ADAT port, what would that be used for?

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Originally posted by DJ TL I noticed it doesnt have an ADAT port, what would that be used for?

ADAT connections. ADAT does 8 channels of audio down a single optical cable.

I seriously doubt if you will ever need it.

interesting my computer has no firewire port

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Originally posted by DJ TL interesting my computer has no firewire port

As long as you have an open PCI slot, you can buy a FW card for cheap - just make sure that it has a TI chipset in it for best compatibility with sound cards.

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Originally posted by DJ TL interesting my computer has no firewire port

just get a PCI to firewire card. Shouldn't cost more then $20 for a brand name one.

EDIT: Dave beat me to it!

easy enough. thanks for the replys.

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Originally posted by Raphie I've got 2 mr816x stacked, works flawless

Out of interest, why did you do that instead of just getting something like an ADA8000?

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because:
- l like the converters better
- i wanted gain on the pre-amps
- needed additional SPdif I/O for my Benchmark and SSL's
- just because they can stack up to 3 units

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