Recommended models: HDSP9632, Babyface pro
 
In the eyes of ordinary users, innovation is the boss of the sound card industry. It's true that this is true in consumer sound cards, but in professional sound card circles, RME's popularity is not inferior to innovation, and even wins.
 
Although RME is only 20 years old, its R&D team is made up of German musicians and audio technicians, so it is very good at identifying market demands, because no one knows what they need better than the musicians themselves. In view of this, RME quickly entered the international mainstream market and expanded rapidly.
 
The biggest advantage of RME sound card is stability, as a professional recording card, ASIO is naturally indispensable, and RME's ASIO performance is better, no matter how debugging, no matter how complex the audio file is, there will rarely be problems such as popping, which is something that many sound cards in the early days could not do.
 
Today, RME has made a great name in the field of professional sound cards, and its products have always been known for their high quality, and the most classic product, RME HDSP9632 sound card, was once the representative of German high-end sound cards in China, known as "the world's most comprehensive PCI audio card", which is all the rage and is still sold today, which shows its quality and reliability.
 
RME also has its subsidiary brand ALVA, which mainly operates cables for the German-designed Nanoface and system kitting, and adopts the same agent sales model as Fox in the domestic market, with Beijing Xinsaisi Technology Co., Ltd. as the general agent responsible for RME and ALVA's business in China.
 
However, high quality comes at a high price, and RME has never been a cost-effective brand. Judging from the products currently on sale, the lowest price HDSP9632 is also more than 3000 yuan, and the RME Babyface Pro, which is selling very well, is as high as 5500 yuan.
 
HDSP9632 is RME's very classic old sound card, and the innovative Audigy2 is the same era thing, the use is still PCI interface, there is no traditional sound card headphone jack on the board, you need to transfer through 2 D-sub ports and 2 ADAT optical interfaces, so there are a lot of supporting cables. The specification of the 9632 is 192 kHz/24 bit, the signal-to-noise ratio reaches 110dB, which is completely true compared to the current HIFI sound card, and is also equipped with RME's "zero CPU usage" technology, which can process audio signals through the built-in DSP chip when recording, without occupying system resources, and the only drawback is probably its price.
 
Babyface pro is an external sound card, so portability is not a problem. The power supply mode has been redesigned, with a 48V phantom power supply switch, it can work stably through USB 3.0 or USB 2.0, and the 12 in and 12 out ports can meet the access of almost any device, whether it is used for recording or HIFI is a good choice, and HDSP9632, the biggest obstacle may just be the price.