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RME User Forum → FireWire & USB series → AKM to ESS change... permanent?
Hi.
I am ready to be disappointed, but I would like to know if the switch to ESS is permanent or if AKM can resume production RME would be back to their original design, which I guess had a purpose to begin with!
Thanks
And what product are you talking about?
Will AKM resume production of the chips previously in the UFXII/ UFX+ (AK5388AEQ and AK4414EQ from what i read)
Or is the change to ESS permanent for those interfaces
Or yet is it possible RME upgrades to newer AKM chips ?
Everything is possible and partly happening already. Please note that both AK5388 and AK4414 have been cancelled by AKM, so alternatives are ending production or completely redesigning the product as there are no direct replacements available.
Ok thanks, so since UFX+ is discontinued, what are the changes in UFXII hardware revision 7, still ESS ?
AK4490REQ, lots of. And AK5574 for input.
Greetings Matthias, I am deciding between UFX II or UFX III and am wondering, will the newest UFX II hardware revisions make the two units similar except for USB3 and MADI in the UFX III? E.g. has SteadyClockFS made it into the UFX II? Sky
I have a more recent RME Babyface Pro FS which I know it uses AKM AD and ESS DA as I asked support mainly out of curiosity. Is there really that much of a difference? As I had another FS version a few years ago which I stupidly sold. It such a well engineered piece of hardware with incredible clean audio and just works. And I am struggling notice. Why do others prefer AKM chips?
I have a more recent RME Babyface Pro FS which I know it uses AKM AD and ESS DA as I asked support mainly out of curiosity. Is there really that much of a difference? As I had another FS version a few years ago which I stupidly sold. It such a well engineered piece of hardware with incredible clean audio and just works. And I am struggling notice. Why do others prefer AKM chips?
If your ears are sharp enough,
The sound of ESS and AKM is not the same,
(Even though they may measure the same in spectrum tests)
There will be a fundamental difference in the essence of the sound.
There will be a fundamental difference in the essence of the sound.
Wow.
Maybe when the audio signal is measured (using spectrum analysers, etc), but any difference would be inaudible to the human ear. If the chip was somehow inferior in sound quality , or coloured in some way, the RME developers wouldn't have used them- this is a big investment which wouldn't have been taken lightly.
It's like UA users making a case for their superior fidelity over other interfaces-spinning the test data to 'prove' something. Total nonsense
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