M2

“I recently got the M2 (it's supposed to be the 2021 or 2019 revision) and have a lot of problems with it with constant cracking and popping and losing audio, lagging etc.”

“I also went through different source gear, a Burson PM2, an iDSD Diablo and a MOTU M2. I honestly can't tell the difference at all between the three when listening at my prefered volume level.”

“i had the motu m2, and while it was fine for the most part, the bass would distort if i increased the volume,for low to medium volume it was perfectly fine”

“After more testing i find myself tracking around 128, 64 still has occasional pops..”

“I've been using this interface since 2020. Having pre amps with graph visualizers was the most important thing for me and my microphones, so I definitely recommend it.”

“Something similar has started happening to mine in the last couple of days also. I usually have mine set to 96 khz, but now after every reboot I get audio dropouts like the cpu can't keep up.”

“Ive been on a Motu M2 for about a year now and theres plenty of headroom (even with no pad) with the knob zero'd out on the itnerface with my fluence equipped guitars”

“Owned an M2, was torn between the SSL2+ like you… Sold the M2 after realizing my Focusrite Scarlett 8i6 was the best of the bunch…”

“I can get good tones out of neural plugins with the motu m2, but I need to have the knob on the interface at zero or just above it which seems like standard practice unless I'm mistaken. The only annoyance I have is that I can't have the volume pot on my guitar cranked all the way up, so repeatability between takes when recording can be a little bit off.”

“I do enjoy having dedicated RCA and TRS outs so I don’t have to use adapters for the Magni or unplug when I want to use my monitor speakers which is the main reason I got the Motu… and the gain meters hehe.”

“mine started crashing when I only dared to look at a different usb cable that wasn't Motus proprietary one”

“Horrible latency, been using it since 2021 find something else. Terms of sound quality it’s good 7/10”

“I was happy with the little I tried. I use it daily for playback and it works great as long as I use a recent kernel (currently I'm running 5.18.16). Very rarely audio gets locked and I have to turn it off/on.”

“So far, haven’t noticed any issues. Sound quality is great, no latency to speak of, all ins and outs are dead quiet, even crank all the way up.”

“Same issue here, with the MOTU M2 on Windows 11, audio pops and crackles.”

“I'm facing the same issue and I can't single out the cause either.”

“I've had an m2 for a few years, light use.. but it's never given me issues outside of playing cyberpunk (had to change sample rate to correct)”

“In my experience the m2/4 has been one of the best interfaces for guitar, exactly because of the reason the gain can go low enough.”

“i'd pick the SSL2 (i have a motu m2)”

“I can say this one is pretty nice. Has good drivers for headphones and I don't need to use a cloudlifter with my SM7B.”

“I've been having this same problem.”

“The MOTU is rock solid and extremely accurate. My favorite interface out of the five or so I’ve owned over my life.”

“Both are stable workhorses but I have to say M2 for the build quality. The metal knobs are always enjoyable to use.”

“I just bought the M2. No issues driving the 6xxs, it also outputs to both RCA out and headphone out simultaneously.”