spent the weekend with new babyface, did some recordings and listened to some music i like

what do i think?
very well designed little unit, drivers solid on win7x64
digicheck is great! best low-cpu scopes i've used, adds a lot of value to the 'rme experience'
no crackles at 24/96 256 buffer
runs on one usb port with no problem

the sound?
very detailed and accurate, a little less euphonic than my metric halo 2882 (but i am very used to the metric halo sound)
mic pres are very neutral, plenty of gain even for dynamic mics (better gain than mh!)
very good clocking, no sync issues at all with 2x8 adat channels @24/48 babyface<->mh2882

so i like the unit very much, it will be my performance interface from now on
i play with live softsynths and vocoder, and the latency is not a worry

the only problem i had was when i went to check the firmware, and it said i was up to date but my
backup was corrupted - i didn't know what this meant, nothing in the manual - so i just ignored it  : )

so all in all a good weekend
today i told my friend he should get one!