In Reply to: RE: Is firewire still better than usb for audio ? posted by Mercman on September 21, 2013 at 10:12:50:
Firewire is slowly being replaced by Thunderbolt which is backwards compatible by means of a cheap adaptor cable.
Personally I never had any issues with even the original Firewire 400 streaming 12 channels bidirectionally (ie record and replay simultaneously) at 24/96. That's 24 channels via one cable.
USB on the other hand has so far been a complete nightmare since unlike FW it was not originally designed for continuous streaming.
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- RE: Is firewire still better than usb for audio ? - b.l.zeebub 10:33:04 09/21/13 (20)
- I think it's just a pure bandwidth issue.... - Rod M 18:56:43 09/21/13 (0)
- RE: Is firewire still better than usb for audio ? - beppe61 11:20:24 09/21/13 (8)
- RE: Is firewire still better than usb for audio ? - Roseval 12:02:45 09/21/13 (7)
- RE: Is firewire still better than usb for audio ? - ahendler 20:57:16 09/21/13 (0)
- RE: Is firewire still better than usb for audio ? - beppe61 12:29:21 09/21/13 (5)
- RE: Is firewire still better than usb for audio ? - Roseval 12:45:21 09/21/13 (4)
- RE: Is firewire still better than usb for audio ? - beppe61 12:51:31 09/21/13 (3)
- RE: Is firewire still better than usb for audio ? - Roseval 13:06:00 09/21/13 (2)
- Good ! Thanks a lot again ! - beppe61 13:15:26 09/21/13 (1)
- RE: Good ! Thanks a lot again ! - Roseval 13:56:20 09/21/13 (0)
- RE: Is firewire still better than usb for audio ? - Mercman 10:34:34 09/21/13 (9)
- RE: Is firewire still better than usb for audio ? - AbeCollins 14:16:49 09/21/13 (3)
- Maybe you aren't a real audiophile (g) - Old Listener 17:21:10 09/21/13 (2)
- Cuz only real audiophiles experience glitches and drop-outs (g) - AbeCollins 18:26:48 09/21/13 (1)
- RE: Cuz only real audiophiles experience glitches and drop-outs (g) - Old Listener 20:25:24 09/21/13 (0)
- RE: Is firewire still better than usb for audio ? - Tony Lauck 13:53:30 09/21/13 (3)
- RE: Is firewire still better than usb for audio ? - Roseval 15:03:29 09/22/13 (2)
- RE: Is firewire still better than usb for audio ? - b.l.zeebub 05:30:33 09/23/13 (0)
- RE: Is firewire still better than usb for audio ? - Tony Lauck 17:31:43 09/22/13 (0)
- RE: Is firewire still better than usb for audio ? - Bob_C 11:40:37 09/21/13 (0)