With the ever growing popularity of headphones and latest AD/DA chips pushing technical data further, the ADI-2 Pro convinced with the industry’s biggest footprint per feature ratio, with specs that were as real as RME‘s reputation, a feature set that was unheard of, useful features that for unknown reasons no one else implemented, and two extremely powerful headphone outputs - the new reference in accuracy and dynamic range.

Based on the feedback of our customers and the developers’ desire for an ADI-2 with more features, the ADI-2/4 Pro Special Edition was created, which in many details is even more flexible and powerful than the Pro due to significantly increased hardware effort. But is still an ADI-2 Pro - a multitude of devices compressed in one housing, with simple and mostly automated operation:
RME’s ADI-2 Pro was first released in 2016 and has been a true milestone in many ways. Looking at the multitude of AD/DA converters, USB DACs and dedicated headphone amps available, RME developers felt they all lacked obvious features that are unavoidable to enjoy operation as well as when listening to music. And while many of those devices claim to use the latest state-of–the–art whatsoever converter chip, serious magazines and RME staff were repeatedly disappointed to find that in the end the stellar technical data published in ads and datasheets were nowhere to be found.