Why renaming ?

I think it would be more straightforward to label your cables on both ends.
Every port is clearly labeled on this unit.

Proposal:
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B000PY … &psc=1
https://www.amazon.de/edding-4-8407-4-K … F8&me=

The logic is different.

Basically the ADI-2 Pro chooses its operation mode automatically dependend on what you connect to the device.
The unit has different useful screens.
The main screen's purpuse is that you can choose the wanted volume and Bass/Treble.

The unit has special modes / routings, see handbook.
For some use cases it might be required to configure the unit for that purpose.
You can save up to 9 different configurations.

It's also possible to assign the 4 front knobs (VOL, I/O, EQ, SETUP) different functions.
Also to recall one of the 9 stored settings.

So if you have maybe 2 very different use cases you can map to two of the 4 mentioned keys
the function to i.e. restore setup 1 and 2.
By this you can make it very easy to your fam members to use the device.
If you hold the key longer than around half of a second, then the original function is being chosen.

But for most cases the unit does everything automaticall, i.e.:
- if you plug the phones to Phones 3/4 on the front, then the other analog output 1/2 is being muted and there is a slow rampup of volume so that you can remove phones from your head should it become too loud
- of you connect the unit per USB to a Laptop, then the unit automatically chooses USB operation mode.

All this is nicely explained in the handbook.

So basicallly its relatively irrelevant to see which signals come from where and are being routed to where.
This really nobody would understand.

For very nice troubleshooting of connections and where you have signals coming in and going out
the unit provides other main displays, which are very useful: see handbook chapter 15:
- Global Level Meter
- State Overview
- ...

The ADI-2 Pro FS or FS BE, if you like the black version more, is worth every cent.
I can strongly recommend it. Quality and feature wise the best product that you can get and for this price.
See Berndhards comment, that for him and hist customers the ADI-2 Pro FS even outperforms DACs in the price range of over $8500, see: https://www.forum.rme-audio.de/viewtopi … 93#p136193

Any ideas about adding higher Q values?

Just bumping this in hope that someone can help me with the Q question.
Thanks,
J

Thanks Matthias - 9.9 max Q will work much better in my situation

Basic Mode AD/DA allows to change the source of the outputs 1/2.

Thanks Matthias and Ramses - I am using Basic Mode AD/DA in my Setup 2 above.

My setups as currently saved are:

Setup 1 - Basic Mode USB routes to main output (named ‘iMac’ and mapped to Vol button)

Setup 2 - Basic Mode AD/DA with analogue input selected, routed to main output (named ‘Turntable’ and mapped to I/O button)

Setup 3 - As setup 2 but not named or mapped

I set music playing on both my iMac and turntable, I start with Setup 2 selected and music plays fine from my turntable.  If I switch to Setup 1, music plays fine from my iMac, but I then switch back to Setup 2, no sound plays.  If I load Setup 3 and then switch to Setup 2, sound plays. 

Why does no sound play when switching from Setup 1 to Setup 2?

Many thanks,

James

Hi Matthias,

Sorry I don't know what you mean by 'Clock settings changed' - could you explain?   Also I'm not quite sure I know what you mean about the Source selection.

For the avoidance of doubt, these are the settings I am using for each external source - is there something else I should be doing to be able to switch between these two setups when they're mapped to the keys on the front?

iMAC (Setup 1 - mapped to VOL)

I pressed the SETUP button, and under 'Device Mode' > 'Basic Mode' I selected 'USB'. 

With these settings the sound from my iMac plays through my speakers. 

TURNTABLE (Setup 2 - mapped to I/O)

I pressed the SETUP button, and under 'Device Mode' > 'Basic Mode' I selected 'AD/DA'. 

I also pressed the I/O button, under 'Main Output 1/2' > 'Settings' > 'AD/DA Source' I selected 'Analogue'.

With these settings the sound from my turntable plays through my speakers.

I can check this again when I am back from holidays. Not sure why you have that mute effect when switching from setup 1 to 2. Is the unit on the latest firmware 185/90?

The reason it doesn't work is easy to see: after loading the setup with AD/DA mode the source for Main 1/2 has changed from Analog to Auto. It seems this is a small quirk in loading the stored setup state. If one loads the same setup again input will change to Source Analog.

So until we have a firmware fixing this you simply press the remapped key four times...

Sorry, no ETA.

That must have been lost somehow, sorry. We'll check and try to put this in a quick update.

Works now - update coming.

Fixed in version 94.