Help me to choose

[Tachy]

I'm loocking to buy a new firewire interface, now I'm on iMac and I have the m-audio 1814....but I need more quality and connectivity.
I think about the rme fireface 800 and the motu 828 mk3.
The price of the motu is really good, but I don't know if ther's problems with the chipset of my iMac ( agere ).....
What do you think about this products?
I'm seriously tempted to buy the motu, but I don't found information about compatibility issues with the iMac......

 

[Potshot]

MOTU used to be Mac only until a few years ago IIRC so I don't think you'd ever have compatibility issues with them, their sequencer software is still Mac only as well.

 

[Tachy]

Thanks, I run Nuendo 4 on my mac...my only doubt is the chipset of my iMac.....

 

[outoftune]

Fireface seems to be an excellent choice. Ordered mine yesterday - dunno about MAC compatibility, though
OOT

 

[Kadmium]

I've had my Fireface 800 for a few months now. I'm still thoroughly impressed by it and there's so far been nothing about it that I don't like. The pres are clean, conversion is clean, number of inputs is great, drivers are very solid and it's overall a very high quality piece of kit. I highly recommend it.

 

[beyond dead]

if your running an apple, get the apogee ensemble dude. im looking at that myself. apple, logic, apogee. its a natural choice. TRUST ME!!!!!!

 

[gorath23]

If you have the Agere Chipset you are going to have potential problems with any piece of FW kit, not just the MOTU. The Agere chipset has got a seriously bad rep judging by the number of internet threads I have read. Bum deal! Have Apple still not got around to switching back to TI chipsets in the iMac? I know the Mac Pro's are now back with TI.

 

[Tachy]

I had some problems, but with the configuration that I have today my iMac work great.....the problem of the iMacs is that they are not expandible like a pc or a mac pro, the mac pro is a beast but is expensive......now I think to return to pc and put my external hard drive ( raptor ) in my pc with the esata conection.
In my pc I have the ti chipset in the firewire pci card..