1616M - Reviews - Music Tech Magazine

E-mu has created an interesting CardBus alternative to FireWire and USB interfaces for laptop users. George Shilling slides it in.

Price: £350.00
Manufacturer: E-mu
Website: http://www.emu.com

E-mu has been marketing PCMCIA interfaces for years, and the recent spate of USB and FireWire rivals seems only to have spurred the company on to better-quality and even more competitively priced CardBus devices. There are good technical reasons for preferring this type of interface: performance is closer to that of PCI interfaces than FireWire or USB, making it easier to compare the MIDI performance of the different device types; while the superiority of PCMCIA in both latency and jitter is obvious. The disadvantages include incompatibility with desktop machines and the often increased production costs. However, the price of E-mu’s latest product is low enough to make it a worthy consideration and it offers plenty of inputs and outputs, as well as unusual features such as a turntable input and onboard DSP. One particularly interesting feature of the 1616m is the deployment of the same converters that Digidesign uses in the HD 192 hardware for Pro Tools.

Score: 9

This review first appeared in Music Tech Magazine issue 33
Filed under Audio Interfaces, Hardware

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