I've had noise problems @ 96 kHz since I bought it, although the noise has changed over the years. Now it's just pops/clicks using the 32 buffer - earlier it sounded a lot worse. Since I use 96 mainly to get low latency, the 32 buffer is important, but unfortunately - still not usable with 8 g RAM. 192 is sounding totally useless, but I don't need 192. Any hints  of what I can do to solve the 96 kHz noise problem? This is with Logic (any version), OS X (latest and earlier versions) and 5 different Intel Macs. I know people with the same setup using another interface at the same buffer/sample rate, so the problem doesn't seem be OSX, Logic or CoreAudio.

I've been trying through my dealer, through earlier posts on forums and through calling RME directly to solve a problem I have with pops and clicks in an RME product, so now I'm asking in an already existing thread about pops and clicks.

Re. "unrelated", I could have started a new thread about pops and clicks, but the relationship between pops and clicks on my own FF800 and the pops and clicks on another FF800 seems to be 'related'... no? You could say that I should have started my own thread, but I have already mentioned the problem in a thread I started - with no response. I use 96 kHz to get lower latency, so this issue is important to me, and I have tried all the options I can think of to find a solution. If there are solutions I haven't been thinking of, please enlighten me. Maybe someone in here knows for sure that my own FF800 pops and clicks are totally unrelated to this other person's FF800 pops and clicks, but I simply have no idea what my pops and clicks are related to - hence the question.

Thanks for your reply. I placed a comment here because I got no response to the questions in the other thread, which originally was about latency and not noise anyway. Just move this post over to the thread about latency if you feel it's more suitable there.

Why do I have the same problems in iTunes - after having used 96 kHz in my DAW if the problem would be only Logic related?  And why doesn't people with other interfaces have the same problem - in the same version of Logic, and the same version of OS X, @ 96 kHz and the 32 buffer?  Maybe I have been misinformed if no DAW can do this - I just need the bare facts...

I don't know what 'single speed' means. When you say that 'it won't work', are you saying that one cannot use the FF800 with the 32 buffer without pops and clicks in 96 kHz? AFAIK '32' is the number of samples in one buffer, and there are two buffers + whatever else is needed to make this work. I don't have any technological insight about this - I just know that when low latencies are announced by various manufacturers, low buffer rates (usually 32) and high sample rates are usually used - to get the best latency results. I've been told - the five times I've called about this - that this should work - and also that if this would be a problem, others would have the same problem as well - and they don't.

If I would have been told that this isn't supposed to work when I first tried to solve the problem, I would have had to deal with this new info.

Remember that most of us don't have the technical expertise you have. In my other thread I was told that "Firewire as such (i.e. as a data transfer protocol) does not introduce significant latency", but other sources say that one can get lower latencies with USB2 than with FW, and some even claim that one can get lower latencies with RMEs USB2 interfaces than one can with RMEs PCIe cards. It's all very confusing. :-)

But this isn't the end of the world - I just need to know what to expect.

Aha.

I still need answer to my question...
"At 96 kHz a setting of 32 samples equals 16 samples in single speed - which won't work either." If seems strange to me that 32 samples with the 96 kHz rate won't work  since other companies, for yeas now, has used that configuration to achieve the low roundtrip latency the advertise with. If that's not possible, I should have been going for a different solution in the first place - eg.  one with built-in effects, or a PCIe solution. No longer than a few days ago a rep from my dealer (but another one this time) said this simply should work, so I really need to know who's right and who's wrong here. No need to send the unit to repair if this won't work anyway...

There is no right and wrong. It always depends on your personal computer and the way you work. If at all I would agree that PCIe still has the edge over FW and USB, but that is a well-known fact. And I would also agree that for your quest of the lowest latency possible you might have bought the wrong interface type (FW). Comparisons to others are mostly flawed except you measure the real round-trip latency yourself.