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Sound QualityWhen it comes to sound quality and price to performance ratio RME plays in its own league. The Fireface UFX is no exception. As with any other RME product it combines excellent analog circuit design with high-grade AD/DA converter chips. Therefore all balanced TRS & XLR I/Os and both phones outputs guarantee outstanding low noise and distortion values. In best RME tradition and product philosophy converters and preamps don’t produce “sound”, they do not add or remove anything from the source signal, just capture it as it is. Equipped with the latest A/D and D/A converter chips, all I/Os operate up to 192 kHz and reach 118 dBA dynamic range on playback - even both headphone outputs. Their high power technology delivers high volume no matter if high or low impedance phones are used. The balanced analog inputs based on RME's low-latency converter design from the high-end converter ADI-8 QS. The DA section is based on RME´s M-Series. Both designs guarantee excellent S/N and THD specs across a wide analog level range. Due to its efficient jitter reduction, RME´s superior SteadyClock guarantees state-of-the-art AD/DA conversion, even when clocking to an external digital source. Every input and output channel comes with a luxury feature set, comparable to a full-scale digital console. The effects per channel include 3-band parametric EQ, adjustable Low Cut, Auto Leveler, Compressor, Expander, MS Processing and phase reversal. The Reverb and Echo effects unit is available for all channels by a stereo send and return bus. The UFX easily tops the competition by offering all these effects even at 192 kHz operation. Every input and output is individually switchable to all common professional studio levels: -10 dBV, +4 dBu, HiGain (equivalent to +2 dBV, +13 dBu and +19 dBu for digital full scale) – directly on the device or via TotalMix. The balanced XLR outputs even provide a level of up to +24 dBu. All outputs can be used for ASIO Direct Monitoring purposes. |
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