Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
For the price it's pretty crappy, from a guitarist's standpoint most of the amp sim plugins are available on the normal platforms (Softube amp rooms and the Plugin Alliance stuff). The plugins also cost more than their normal platform counter parts.
So, for the price of more expensive plugins, only Mac support and it being locked down to only plugins by UA, the pricing is comparable to the price tag of the i7 5960X and the normal plugins. And the 5960X can probably run more plugins at the same time without breaking a sweat.
I just checked, and the Quad UAD card can run 12 instances of the Softube Metal Amp Room while it takes 3-4 percent CPU on my computer which has a 4770K, which means it can run over 20 instances of it. So imagine how many a 5960X can.
It's a different story if you're already invested in the UAD platform. But for a first UAD device I see zero reason to buy this unit.
Additionally, because this unit and the other units in the Apollo series are connected over the e-PCI channels on the Thunderbolt connector, the devices can communicate and route audio amongst themselves acting like one giant interface that gets bigger the more devices you add.