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Apogee Duet Sound Card
Apogee Duet
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Apogee Quartet Sound Card
Apogee Quartet
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RME Fireface UC Sound Card
RME Fireface UC
Editiorial reviews
4
4 editorial reviews
Apogee's Duet 2 puts the company’s famed A-D/D-A conversion into a box that’s attractive in terms of both styling and price...Read more
The Apogee Duet 2 is a top-quality audio interface for recording or just listening to music on a Mac, but it's no longer the only game in town.Read more
A FireWire audio interface with a compact design and chic and silky operationRead more
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2
2 editorial reviews
This sleek four-channel interface and monitor controller embodies all the quality and style we’ve come to expect from Apogee.Read more
Interface adds iOS-compatibilityRead more
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3
3 editorial reviews
All audio interfaces are not created equal. Where will this passenger sit on the universal bus? Text: Andrew Bencina If I had a dollar [...]Read More...Read more
The Fireface UC is ostensibly the same as RME's Fireface 400, providing 36 channels of analogue and digital I/O with only the interface format changed from FireWire to USB 2.0. The analogue inputs areRead more
It may be small, but the RME Fireface UC is very powerful and boasts astonishingly low latency.Read more
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User rating
47
4.0 out of 5
47 user ratings
5 stars
34 %
4 stars
44 %
3 stars
10 %
2 stars
10 %
1 stars
0 %
52
4.3 out of 5
52 user ratings
5 stars
48 %
4 stars
34 %
3 stars
17 %
2 stars
0 %
1 stars
0 %
45
4.1 out of 5
45 user ratings
5 stars
37 %
4 stars
35 %
3 stars
22 %
2 stars
4 %
1 stars
0 %

General

Sound TypeStereoSurroundStereo
Interface Type
N/A
USBFireWire
Number of channels
N/A
5.118

Connectivity

Headphone outputyesyesyes
Headphone output (6.3 mm / 1/4)111
Microphone inputyesyesno
Other connectors
  • Balanced input XLR
  • MIDI
  • Balanced input XLR
  • MIDI
  • Digital coaxial input
  • Digital coaxial output
  • Digital optical input
  • Digital optical output
  • Firewire
  • MIDI
USByesyesyes
Headphone outputs
N/A
11
Jack Plug output (6,3 mm / 1/4)
N/A
62
XLR
N/A
02
Line-in
N/A
noyes
Line-out
N/A
noyes
S/PDIF in port
N/A
noyes
S/PDIF out port
N/A
noyes
Analog 3.5mm output
N/A
N/A
0
Analogue RCA outputs
N/A
N/A
0
Headphone output (3.5 mm)
N/A
N/A
0
Jack Plug input
N/A
N/A
6
Microphone Jack Plug (3.5mm)
N/A
N/A
0

Design

Placement TypeExternalExternalExternal

Features

3D sound supportno
N/A
N/A
DirectSound supportno
N/A
N/A
EAX supportno
N/A
N/A
Remote controlnonono
Plug and Play
N/A
yesyes
Total Harmonic Distortion (THD)
N/A
N/A
0.0 %
Support for ASIO
N/A
N/A
yes

Audio properties

D/A audio24 bit / 192 kHz24 bit / 192 kHz24 bit / 192 kHz
Audio quality24.0 bit
N/A
24.0 bit
Noise level (SNR)
N/A
123.0 dB100.0 dB
Line-out Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR)
N/A
N/A
100.0 dB

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