It took a while to do the research and convince myself that this is worth so much money. Well, this show only that I never invested in a real-real interface. My most expensive was the Presonus AudioBox 1818VSL...
Thank you all other reviewers at Thomann's for the last ”nail in the coffin” of my decision. No, seriously, I was sure that this is going to be good when I ordered, but it's more than that. It's just great for my needs, and the sheer knowledge that I'll also be able to expand it through ADAT sends from my old interface if ever needed, awesome.
The preamps are really great, I could even run some truly lazy mics like the Shure SM7 that I borrowed for a test, as wll as my own large diafragm mics, one of which is another lazy one - Aston Origin, don't trust nobody who says it doesn't need extra gain...
Then my matched pair of Oktava MK-012 (which I also bought through Thomann) that also sounded great sith the pots at around 11:00 close miked and at 16:00 some 50cm away. Didn't get any significant extra noise there.
Just look at all the functions, Bluetooth included, I play my gramophone through it, reamping is a new field but worked great as soon as I understood what I needed to do.
It's small on my table and fits great just underneath the monitor, I drag it out closer when recording, I'm in heaven.
A friend who I recorded with noticed that the main volume knob was ”lazy”, meaning that he needed to make it several turns to incresse the volume significantly and yeah, it's true, but I call it precision...
Great buy, go for it!
