Navigating through the menus needs some practice, especially the EQ. When first using the ADI-2 Pro, you will be forgiven if you feel overwhelmed. From my experience, pro tools are more conservative. Sadly, the latter seems to become the trend in hi-fi. I just hope that the ADI-2 Pro will be the company’s professional flagship in this category for a while so that it receives regular updates instead of being replaced with a yearly new device altogether. RME does not only use the update system to fix bugs but actually already included several improvements with the first update, for example, screen design or even less distortion. You can verify it via the setup hard button and navigate to Options > Hardware/Diagnosis > SW Version. After reboot, the starting screen should already show the updated FW. Once the status is updated to success, quit the app and power-off the device. Do ignore the retro flame logo of the app – I am sure, this is not a 90’s keygen, lol. You can find the downloads here:įor Mac users: simply connect the ADI-2 Pro via USB, turn it on and open the downloaded firmware. In my case, I updated the device via Mac OS X Intel Flash Update Tool to version 125/69. Fortunately, during the testing period of the ADI-2 Pro, RME released a firmware update so I now have the chance to guide you through the action steps. While firmware updates are not necessarily linked to audio quality, they possibly can be. You will find much more in the manual but I do not consider them important for this review. This means that I will leave out the ADC part. I want to focus on those functions that the headphone user and hi-fi enthusiast might value mostly. Analog inputs are first being converted to digital via the ADC and thus also allow all DSP options. The use of DSP allows all kinds of audio manipulations.

It’s an analog-to-digital converter, (the other way around) digital-to-analog converter, and a pre-amp with a headphone amplifier. This is mainly due to the ADI being a 3-in-1 device.

This device has more functions than Japan’s idol group AKB48 has members. RME is the Switzerland of the audio world and the ADI-2 Pro is its showpiece pocketknife.

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