How about a UCX or UC ? These are on stock.

Hello Ramses,
thank You a lot for Your elaborate answer.

In the sellers site it says, that also these (UFX2...) are only availabe in several months from now?!

They offert me other products (not from RME) but I WANT my first RME rock solid - Audio Interface with rock solid - RME drivers and a future perspective... because the once I had are still fine technically, but the companies just don´t provide drivers for newer windows-versions which brought me to RME!  I want to be able to use my audio interface also with windows 11 and a half ;-) ...... ........  hope this problem gets solved soon!  maybe I by me a used fireface 800 in the meantime...

Victim of China?

The fires were in Japan and Taiwan...

Another factor was that car manufacturers estimated that Covid would mean less demand, so they lowered their orders. Later on, they noticed demand didn't go lower, so now they have a problem with supplies. Only exception: Toyota.

Nothing Chinese in there, I'm afraid.

I've mailed support several times without a serial. Something new I'm not aware of?

I went through my comparison Excel to find out the differences, to make it perhaps a little bit easier for you, to take the flagship models UFX II or even UFX+ into consideration.

Some might argue, that an UFX+ might be overkill, but keep in mind two important things:

1. when using higher sample rates the loss of channels in double speed is with ADAT only quite severe. So it might be a good thing to have also MADI for any future demand in the future without having to get a new recording interface. Those free MADI ports can also be used very nicely for loopback recording. You do not have to waste analog or ADAT channels, if you need them for other purposes

2. Its always a big advantage if you have different possibilities to connect to the PC. I remember myself that in some cases USB worked better for me compared to Firewire with a certain Mainboard. With USB2, USB3 and Thunderbolt (external PCIe) you have a wide range of options to use the best / most stable connection towards the computer.

Here a comparison between 802 and UFX II / UFX+ over the 802:

• higher quality analog section

• higher mic gain (75dB vs 60db gain), higher input level of +18dBu (vs +10), little higher SNR (118 vs 116dBA)

• digital gain control, Gain can be saved/restored in TotalMix FX

• better / stronger phones outputs with lower output impedance

• Hi-Z instrument inputs (1 MOhm vs 800kOhm)

• Autoset (automatic overload protection that also can be used to quickly/only find the proper gain for recordings)

• DURec, direct USB recording on USB sticks, etc. for backup or stand-alone recordings, also in CC mode for iPAD

• Internal real-time clock to get timestamps for files on DURec recordings, easier to identify recordings by this

• uses the newer MADIface USB driver that allows sample rates down to 32 (vs 48) samples if needed

• New ARC USB can be connected to a special USB port on the back for this purpose, also nice for stand-alone operation

• 100% fully standalone operation through the Display

• UFX+ can be connected to PC in three ways: via USB2 (without MADI), USB3, Thunderbolt

• UFX+ can be expanded through MADI (more channels available at higher sample rates compared to ADAT only solution)

• UFX+ "MIDI over MADI" to control Mic Preamps (Octamic XTC, soon also 12Mic) without the need for separate MIDI cabling
  

• 802: "old" ARC for remote control also in stand-alone mode is not available/purchaseable anymore

Differences between 802, UFX II / UFX+ in terms of loopback operation:
802: pre-fader, UFX II / UFX+: post-fader
The loopback function in TotalMix FX is implemented either "pre-fader" or "post-fader", depending on driver and hardware support. The "pre-fader" implementation allows to mute the HW output without affecting the loopback operation.
This is useful, for example, to mute connected active monitors without disconnecting the cables.