Soundcard : Echo Audiofire 2
Soundcard : Echo Audiofire 2 Posted on: 04.04.2008 by Irvin Cee Has anyone ever used this piece of gear ? How does it perform ? How is the sound quality ? The latency ? Is the mini-jack headphone a problem ? | |
| Irvin Cee 09.05.2008 | thanks for the feedback ! i finally got a presonus firebox for 260 |
| silas oyugi 08.05.2008 | forget to mention the latency on my system is 2,5ms |
| silas oyugi 08.05.2008 | hi peter! got it last week, till now the drivers work (both on mac (Mac PRO 2008) and vista (Dell VOSTRO Laptop with vista business 32bit)) flawlessly, the soundquality is really good, the headphone ampflification is excellent. used it on a gig last weekend, no troubles at all can highly recommend it, in my ears it sounds a lot better than my previous DJ IO hope this helps you in your decision, the prices in europe dropped in the last month from 220 |
| Adil Laresh 13.04.2008 | was believeing about getting one of these or possibly the audiofire 4's.. I have a DJ IO myself and I know what you mean about the headphone volume. luckily traktor has some good knobs to turn up the cue volume seperately which is exactly what I wanted.. still not as loud as it should be... sound quality wise.. its not the ultimate but its a very sturdy first purchase... great for people wanting to get into the scene since the price is pretty good. very easy to install and the manual includes how to configure for traktor so I was very satisfied... up and running in 2 minutes not sure what I will do for my next card.. I am tempted to go the traktor scratch path, but since I am a midi controller user not sure if i need to.. would be good to have the option of spinning vinyl or cd's if its not possible to use my midi... |
| Irving Delgado 13.04.2008 | I've been looking into the Audiofire 4 myself. The sound quality is pretty important too me. I don't really care a lot about the inputs. Anyway, it's supposed to have the same A/D/A converters as the RME Fireface 400! The Audiofire cards are supposed to sound amazing for their price, probably quite a bit better than the M-audio range. I guess they engineered it with an eye for sound quality instead of a whole bunch of special features. Echo has been making soundcards for a pretty long time and their drivers are supposed to be rock solid. If you want you can use the digital out to get 2 extra channels or route sound to an external uber expensive DAC. Sound quality wise the analogue outputs should be the same in both the Audiofire 2 and Audiofire 4. The Echo site doesn't state that the headphone output at the front is on 2 separate channels but I guess it is. The one on the Audiofire 2 definitely is. I would go for the Audiofire 4, if the headphone output isn't good enough you can then use one pair of outputs on the back and route it to a separate headphone amplifier in any price class you like. There's a bunch of info on the card here: http://www.gearslutz.com |
| robert chanda 09.04.2008 |
Originally Posted by psychoguru
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| silas oyugi 09.04.2008 | hi peter! yes, did it on my own, love to work with wood, was kind of tricky cause it |
| Irvin Cee 05.04.2008 | This was a numark dj io????looks awesome!!!!!!!!!!:eek: how have you done that??? |
| silas oyugi 05.04.2008 | hi peter! i ordered one today, hope to get it within one week, i |
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