I guess maybe RME clock out to HEDD clock in, HEDD clock out to HILO Clock In, HILO Clock in to RME clock in? I'm just not as up on clocking as I should be.

Thanks for your reply. Can you help me in a basic way understand how to best way connect it all?

What if I want ability to have the option of either the RME,  HILO, or HEDD be the clock? Can that be done AES too? It doesn't seem to be working now as I test with the AES16e interface.

With the RME AES, can I make a word clock loop like this?

RME WC Out connected to HEDD WC Input
HEDD WC Out to HILO WC In
HILO WC Out to RME WC In

Would that provide me with the option of having either the RME, HEDD, or HILO be the clock?

Thanks. I've just been following some advice that whatever I am using for the A/D in my session should be the master clock so I wanted an easy way to change the clock to be either the HEDD, HILO, or the AES card. I'm basically always at 96k so changing isn't a big deal.

I just don't know much about word clock I guess so I didn't know if that was a reasonable loop or how it was intended.

It seems the Lynx Hilo is clocking OK via AES but maybe the HEDD needs WC cable to perform best.

Thanks for your help. I have no reason to disagree.

I am strongly considering moving from the AES16e to the RME AES 32.

There was recently a post on a mastering forum about how the SyncroLock of the Lynx AES16e did some harm to the sound and a few people reported how great the RME AES 32 sounded.

I am confused though. Is the Hammerfall an old model? Sometimes I see a black AES32 and sometimes a silver AES32.

Are there two color options or do they have a technical difference?

Thanks, last question before I make the purchase:

Your website nor any of the online shops like Sweetwater show or mention much about the breakout cables.

Does the unit come with both breakout cables and roughly how long are they?

Thanks. I'll take a closer look in the manual. I just wasn't sure if you offered something directly that would work with these common AES units (HEDD/HILO/Avocet).

I think I'm close to making the switch. I use a mix of Pro Tools, REAPER, and WaveLab software and I actually do beta testing for WaveLab and even on the public WaveLab forum, RME gets the most reports of crashing WaveLab when going between files of different sample rates in WaveLab.

Not everybody has problems but some do so while I think the sound of my analog processing could be better moving from the Lynx AES16e to the RME, it would be unfortunate if the RME made WaveLab crash because the time involved to make the switch and configure everything with the RME and my DAWs could easily be a few hours or maybe solid days work.

Thanks for the report. I admit that I didn't pay close attention to the details because I am not an RME user at this time.

I wonder if anybody has reports of stability with the HDSPe AES and WaveLab when changing the sample rate.

WaveLab will of course change the sample rate automatically but RME users seem to report many crashes related to this.

It's definitely a wavelab 9.x bug as the hdsp9652 has zero issues in other apps
(Cubase9/studio one 3.5/reaper 5.4/wavelab 8.5/vegas etc)

I finally had time to make the purchase of the card and the proper cables from Redco Audio.

I just wanted to say thanks again for your help making this decision.

I will report back if I get the classic WaveLab crash.

Thanks for the report. I often go fro 96k down to 44.1k (using custom montage copy and 3rd party SRC) so I'll know quickly if the issue exists there.