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Creative Sound Blaster Surround 5.1 Card
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RME Fireface 802 Sound Card
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RME Fireface UC Sound Card
RME Fireface UC
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REVIEW - Are you looking for powerful sound combined with snazzy looks, from a company with decades of multimedia experience? I've been running someRead more
The Creative Sound Blaster X4 is a direct successor to the excellent Sound Blaster X3. This external USB sound card keeps everything good about its predecessor and adds a couple of interesting additions to the mix, most notably SmartComm Kit—a combination of features aimed at improving our online call quality.Read more
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The Fireface 802 picks up where its highly successful predecessor left off.Read more
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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
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4.0 out of 5
32 user ratings
5 stars
31 %
4 stars
37 %
3 stars
31 %
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4.1 out of 5
36 user ratings
5 stars
30 %
4 stars
47 %
3 stars
22 %
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4.1 out of 5
45 user ratings
5 stars
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4 stars
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3 stars
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2 stars
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General

Interface TypeUSBFireWireFireWire
Number of channels4.17.118
Sound Type
N/A
StereoStereo

Connectivity

Headphone outputs111
Microphone inputyesyesno
Line-inyesyesyes
S/PDIF out portyesyesyes
Headphone output
N/A
yesyes
Headphone output (6.3 mm / 1/4)
N/A
21
Jack Plug input
N/A
86
Jack Plug output (6,3 mm / 1/4)
N/A
42
XLR
N/A
42
Line-out
N/A
yesyes
S/PDIF in port
N/A
yesyes
Other connectors
N/A
  • Digital optical input
  • Digital optical output
  • Firewire
  • MIDI
  • Digital coaxial input
  • Digital coaxial output
  • Digital optical input
  • Digital optical output
  • Firewire
  • MIDI
USB
N/A
yesyes
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
Microphone Jack Plug (3.5mm)
N/A
N/A
0

Design

Placement TypeExternalExternalExternal

Audio properties

D/A audio24 bit / 96 kHz24 bit / 192 kHz24 bit / 192 kHz
Audio quality24.0 bit24.0 bit24.0 bit
Noise level (SNR)
N/A
110.0 dB100.0 dB
Line-out Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR)
N/A
115.0 dB100.0 dB

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