Are there any firewire interfaces that take advantage of firewire 800 technology?

[Barry Jive]

It stikes me that with latency being such an important issue, everyone and their brother would be designing around firewire 800 technology. Why is 400 still the standard? Are they ANY that use 800?

 

-Eric

[seaneldon]

rme fireface 800

[Red Winger]

The Fireface is basically a 400 device. It only really takes advantage of 800 when there are two of them daisy-chained together. Otherwise, it's basically a 400 interface (albeit a very good one).

 

--Mark

[ozinexile]

I might be off the mark here but I doubt that firewire 800 would reduce latency compared to firewire 400, it would just allow you to push more audio around at the same time.

 

Firewire 400 is quite adequate for modest track counts (is 24 channels @ 48 kHz considered modest?) of streaming audio at low latencies.

[Bossa]

I remember seeing it clearly stated in the Fireface reviews that latency is NOT reduced compared to firewire 400. Why? No idea, but unfortunately it appears that way.

[Barry Jive]

Interesting. Thanks for the replies! I guess firewire 800 is really useful when transfering large amounts of information like digital video, as opposed to transferring smaller amounts really fast. That's a pretty colloquial interpretation, but it seems to be accurate based on all of your comments.