AudientiD14 USB Audio Interface and Monitor Controller

La calidad de preamps es muy buena, así como sus salidas tanto en amplificador de audífonos como en salida de línea balanceada para monitores. El color de salida está muy bien balanceado y los graves resaltan pero con bastante control. También para conectarle otra interfaz por medio de toslink no es nada técnico, todo es muy intuitivo, el diseño es práctico y compacto pero resistente, el nivel de ruido es bastante bajo teniendo en cuenta la generación de esta interfaz, aunque en salidas literalmente no existe ruido alguno (cuando probé los audífonos por primera vez, sin reproducir música aún pensé que no estaba saliendo nada de audio porque le subí a tope y no se escuchaba ni el menor rastro de hiss). Con otras interfaces al cambiar de sample rate unas cuantas veces, se generaban clicks digitales por error de conectividad entre el CPU y la interfaz, esto no me ha pasado con la audient, se nota en verdad bastante estable. En general podría decir que es mucho más de lo que cuesta.

Absolutely the best option in this price range. I've owned. Mackie, presonus, focusrite and behringer umc 1820. None of the entry level interfaces come even close to the Audient. Even playing back iTunes is bigger sounding. The preamps are clean and big. The conversion is amazing. This box has more than enough ability and quality to make great records, it's on you and your ears from here!

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UPDATED REVIEW: Having spent more time with the ID14, and having received several emails from their support group, I have upgraded my review to 5 stars. With the right hardware / software platform, the install was reasonably easy and the resulting sound is clearly superior to anything in the lower price ranges (in fact, I would probably say the value and flexibility exceed Apogee at this lower pride point, and I certainly prefer the preamps and brown-burr A/D to the focusrite/ presonus/m-audio units). I will be the first to admit that having had some time away from my initial horrible experience with the drivers has helped (which I will chalk up in part to the recently released major Microsoft update, and in part to having an iConnect driver on the first 2 machines tried), and seeing that they at least cared enough to write and provide some useful information (albeit a bit limited) has also helped to get beyond the drivers and install to the sounds quality of the device itself. Overall, I am pleased with the investment and use this interface as my main rig for guitar practice. No, I'd never trade it for my UAudio or RME gear, but I honestly couldn't afford those interfaces for this use, and I'm quite satisfied that this was the best decision at this price point. Accordingly, I've upgraded my review to 5-stars. INITIAL REVIEW: I agonized over this review and waited over 2 weeks to write it just to be fair. Let's start with what's good: for the price point the sound quality is good, and probably a notch better than the interfaces in the $150 - $250 price range. It is pretty neutral, with a slight smoothness to the frequency response that reminds me of my Apogee gear. It doesn't have the clarity and punch of RME, or the accuracy of Universal Audio, but neither of those brands have anything in this price range. It is certainly more enjoyable to listen to for mixing, mastering, or just plain listening.Build quality is generally sturdy; however, there is a slight amount of play in the large knob that isn't up to the same standard as the rest of the knobs and jacks. Now for the ok, Latency is higher than other interfaces at the price point or lower, and I find the pre-amps sound a little more dull and boxy than I'd be happy with by themselves. Matters less to me because I have outboard preamps that I use but if you really care about the sound of your recordings, I'd probably save up for a UA Apollo or apogee ensemble if you have a mac, or a used RME fireface with pc/mac as I'm not sure you could live with the sound of these pre-amps or anything cheaper by themselves. Other option is to get a good external pre-amp (and there are some really fine pres in the $300 range now if you check ebay). Now for the bad: support. I left a string of requests for support indicating I was having a lot of trouble with the drivers (see below) and not a single one was answered. NOT ONE! Now for the absolutely horrible: Hands down the worst drivers I've have had to install since the early days of PCs when we had to deal with interrupt conflicts manually. The only way I worked my way through days of agony was to uninstall every driver vaguely close to audio on the machine, use the beta driver, and (worst of all) run as administrator (which is a hacker / malware author's dream come true). I'm still mad at myself for running as administrator and not just returning the device, but that's water under the bridge now. So you you may be wondering why the 4 stars? Because I researched this purchase pretty extensively and founds that most products in this price range or less: have driver issues, sound significantly harsher and are more colored, create more ear fatigue and have a number of other drawbacks (e.g., cheap build quality). I also found that a small difference in a review matters a lot on amazon and I'm concerned that giving this a 3 might adversely impact the product more at this point than would be fair. Hence, the long review to disclose the good, bad and ugly. As for recommendation, if you care about sound quality and plan on listening to the unit for long periods, it's a good choice for the price range. If if it's your only interface and you're a guitar or bass player who wants to play/record into the DI into a DAW, I'm afraid it's not the best choice if you can afford to pay a bit more. The latency is too high to add any effects to the tone while recording, there's a bit more distortion in the DI than I personally prefer it didn't handle high gain humbuckers well and was too colored to capture the chime of single coils on a strat or tele. Most importantly, the high latency for direct use could hurt your recordings and even development as a player. If you have a few interfaces and have reasonable expectations for what you can do with this one, you may find (like I do) that it's a reasonable addition to the studio for playback (and here I will readily confess I enjoy it) low cost practicing, quick practice recording, etc. when you don't want to fire up your main rig. Important edit to this review: As noted below, I went through pure hell getting the drivers to work on the intended machine, and it wasn't much fun on my other machines either; however, I switch it to a different i5 windows 10 workstation this weekend and it actually installed easily and sounds much, much better than it did on the other machines. I don't know if there was an issue with windows, or the non-beta driver, but I'll confess that the unit is performing acceptably on this machine (albeit still with the latency issue noted above). Original note: Finally, I should note the drivers are not entirely stable. I find they typically crash about 1x/day and I have to reboot. With all of this said, these factors all balance against each other and having written this, I stand by the 4 star review, solely based on my experience, use, preferences and what I hoped to get out of it. Hopefully, you'll find something in these notes to be helpful to your purchasing decision. [My apologies for the long review, but I spent a lot of time researching devices, getting this one to work and agonizing over the review. I hope this is of value to someone else working through a similar purchasing decision.]

Inmejorable relación calidad / precio en las interfaces de Audient, que incorporan tecnología clase A en previos y convertidores AD-DA. En concreto la ID14 es la más básica que trae de serie un conector óptico, para posibilitar más canales de entrada simultáneos, mediante ADAT o S/PDIF. La robusta construcción y la precisión de sus controles inspiran total confianza por un tercio de lo que pueden costar otras interfaces de prestaciones similares. Jubilé mi anterior Focusrite y el salto de calidad en grabación por línea de guitarras, con una claridad muy superior, así como la grabación de micrófono es manifiesta. La mayor calidad de la escucha también se apreció de inmediato en mis monitores y auriculares.