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Topic: Why is AES more expensive?

Hi, I'm looking at some of the RME cards on Thomann and I can't really figure out what makes the HDSPe AES more expensive than other cards. To me it seems to have less features than for instance the AIO. What am I missing?

2 Reply by ramses (edited by ramses 2016-03-01 18:41:40)

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Re: Why is AES more expensive?

I could think of, that this card requires more performant / expensive chips.

Rough calculation:
The RayDAT processes 4 (ADAT) * 8 (channels) * 48 kHz = 1536
The HDSPe AES is able to process 16 * 192 = 3072

Thats double the amount of data per second.

BR Ramses - UFX III, 12Mic, XTC, ADI-2 Pro FS R BE, RayDAT, X10SRi-F, E5-1680v4, Win10Pro22H2, Cub14

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Re: Why is AES more expensive?

An AES card is for people that need AES. Obviously this is more seldom the case as with a mainstream AIO, means smaller production numbers, means higher costs.

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Re: Why is AES more expensive?

So the AES is faster?

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Re: Why is AES more expensive?

"Faster"? No, recording an hour's music will still take an hour...

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Re: Why is AES more expensive?

RME Support wrote:

"Faster"? No, recording an hour's music will still take an hour...

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