Originally Posted By: Rustyspoon#

I will add to Mario comment... If the test unit is a "smaller" interface, it might be completely different game.

I have a small USB bus powered interface that works on laptop perfectly without external power plugged to it and laptop running on battery.

My larger, recording interface, while also advertised to "work" powered by USB, gives me all kind of glitches under moderate load, unless both, the unit itself and laptop plugged in.

Since buying this Interface, I have been exclusively connected to "Monitor 1 and 2" on the back panel.

Today, for grins, I connected to Outputs 3 & 4 and still get the glitch.

I'm thinking that either
1. Speedstep is the culprit and/or
2. The Tascam can't handle the newer technology of the i9 machine.

Generally speaking most failures be they mechanical, electrical, optical, software, human organizational or even biological happen at the juncture of 2 or more entities coming together and trying to interact. Common arthritis (at a juncture or joint) is an example. In this case it would be the i9/Tascam juncture.

Thinking back to what the Tascam engineer said about the unit running fine on Win 11 (which I know from my i5 experience) what he didn't say is that he has expeience running on a Win 11 i9 machine. Which is why I asked if anybody has success with i9s and audio interfaces.

If I didn't mention this before, absent the periodic crackles and noise, the audio quality is fine.

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