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#Komplete audio 6 dac upgrade#
The sub $100 market is pretty much basic and I wouldnt bother, from $1-200 you get something on a par with a high end internal soundcard or a DAC costing maybe 25-50% more, if you stretch your budget to around the $500 mark you will never want to buy another upgrade until you are spending thousands on monitors.Case Finder Live Sound & Lighting Shop By CategoryĬase Finder Software & Plug-ins Shop By Category I have no experience with the quality of the Komplete Audio 6, but in my experience you get a pretty similar level of quality at each price point. One last thing to mention an interface allows you to plug in a mic at the same time for whatever reason, recording or just for skype. Depending on budget you can really get high quality sound from products from RME or Benchmark, but most likely they will offer many things you wont want or need. You may find consumer dac's with higher quality components or indeed better spec, but I like the build quality and versatility of an interface. I own and use adam a7x and krk rp6 monitors, having an interface means I can connect either or both to the same interface, and allow me to quickly switch from monitors to headphones without unplugging anything.
#Komplete audio 6 dac full#
Products like Ableton Live and ProTools often bundle their free versions with the interface to try and promote their product, hoping you will upgrade to their full production suites later to recoup the cost.Īn independent DAC manufacturer does not have a similar production scale and sell far fewer units meaning margins must be higher on each unit sold. The reason for the price difference between dac's and interfaces is due to R&D and production scale and the fact the music production software companies often subsidize some of that cost. I personally recommend audio interfaces over dac's for the reasons you mentioned, I am a huge fan of focusrite interfaces at the budget end owning a 2i4 and a couple of others. Is there anyone who could actually provide some experience in comparing an audio interface with a dac? So basically I'm wondering now if I'm missing something or if it really does make (much) more sense to go for a device like the Komplete Audio 6, or even cheaper interfaces instead of a dedicated DAC?
The audio interfaces sometimes offer separate volume control which would suffice as well I guess.Īs for outputs, a lot of (dedicated) dacs like Schiit seem to have only unbalanced RCA outputs, why is this the case? I hear a lot of people complaining about hiss with studio monitors and it seems this is often solved by using balanced input. Most devices require you to physically pull the headphone out of the device to be able to use the monitors?! The Fostex HPA-3 was the only device I found with a switch. One other thing I can't understand is the complete lack of output control in terms of switching/controlling headphones and monitors separately.
The way I see it now is you get a whole lot more for the same amount of $$ if you go for an audio interface, while they seem to deliver good (enough) quality in terms of DAC. Somehow it seems that the 'audio interface world' and DACs are completely separate and it's really hard to find any comparison. I'm considering buying some active studio monitors and now I'm looking for a DAC and something to control them (as well as use my headphones).
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