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Topic: Digiface USB Phones output sounds really good

Yes, I'm pleasantly surprised with the quality of the headphones output on my new Digiface USB. It drives my hd600's with plenty power to spare and sound clear and punchy.

I thought I'd let people know because there does not seem much info about it.

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Re: Digiface USB Phones output sounds really good

There are so many details like this that we take for granted, just another reason to invest in this equipment!

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Re: Digiface USB Phones output sounds really good

thanks for the info

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Re: Digiface USB Phones output sounds really good

cryptout wrote:

Yes, I'm pleasantly surprised with the quality of the headphones output on my new Digiface USB. It drives my hd600's with plenty power to spare and sound clear and punchy.

I thought I'd let people know because there does not seem much info about it.

Yes its really interesting, because technical information is available in the manuals and also put together in my excel comparison sheet, but it is not easy possible to interpret it as all depends on the phones.
But not only impedance but also the drivers efficients in the phones determine the final volume.

Here a quick comparison of all phones outputs of all USB/FW/TB recording interfaces of RME:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lxli1pa3j3v9rnr/2021-02-25-Phones-Outputs.jpg?dl=1

Hint: if the picture is too small in your browser, then either try to "zoom in" or right click to the image:
"Display Grafic" / "Grafik anzeigen" and then "open in": <graphic viewer of your choice>
My choice is e.g. Picasa Photo Viewer (nice functionality, you can zoom in/out with the mouse wheel, nice functionality.

As you can see the others have even more than 50mW ...

Nice that it works so well for you and thanks for your feedback.

In case you are interested in my Excel, here the blog article:
https://www.tonstudio-forum.de/blog/ind … B-MADIfac/

And the direct link to the excel, see the different tabs (english / german) ..
https://www.tonstudio-forum.de/index.ph … 0-08-xlsx/

BR Ramses - UFX III, 12Mic, XTC, ADI-2 Pro FS R BE, RayDAT, X10SRi-F, E5-1680v4, Win10Pro22H2, Cub14
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Re: Digiface USB Phones output sounds really good

Nice overview @ramses, I guess it shows that even the lowest spec in the list still can still sounds great. Nice job RME! For reference, before this I used the phones out of my old Fireface 800.