M-Audio Firewire 410: Anyone else get screwed on the firewire cable?

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jdechant

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I just got my firewire 410 in the mail and on the box it says it is supposed to come with a 6' firewire cable. It only came with a 3' one! This is rediculous. There is no way I can reach my computer firewire jack with a 3' cable. e-mailed sales support and asked for them to send me the correct length cable.

anyone else buy a firewire 410 and get a little 3' cable instead of the 6' it is supposed to come with?

Also, what is up with the entire unit being silver in all of the media images & images on the box, but then really only the faceplate is silver and the rest is a dark grey/charcoal color? Sort of misleading.
 
Dude....seriously....hold your fucking breathe...if those are the 2 biggest problems you have with the 410...then consider yourself lucky!
 
I just bought mine three days ago, and yea the cable is pretty short. I didn't ever read how long it is supposed to be but it is probably about 3 feet. But from what I've heard you should keep FireWire cables as short as you can possibly live with...
-k
 
radzikk said:
But from what I've heard you should keep FireWire cables as short as you can possibly live with...
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Never heard that about firewire. have heard it about USB, and with that you need a hub after so many feet, but never heard it about firewire.

In any case, I don't see how many people would be able to use a 3' cable with their desktops (most setups I've seen, the desktop is on the ground or similar). notebook maybe.
 
emu

The E-mu Firewire is supposed to be 3 meters (about 9 feet) and they still boast virtually zero latency. I wouldn't think the length of a firewire cable should make too much of a difference. Most of the latency happens inside anyway.
 
Relating cable length and latency is pretty rediculous.
It's like saying that a 100 ft XLR cable will give you a higher latency than a 10 ft cable when hooking up your mic to your preamp.

Signal decay is the main reason why connections have a maximum cable length. Some standards are less prone to signal loss than others. USB has a max. of about 5 meters. Cat5 100mbit network connections can reach up to 180 meters if I remember correctly.
 
jdechant said:
I just got my firewire 410 in the mail and on the box it says it is supposed to come with a 6' firewire cable. It only came with a 3' one! This is rediculous. There is no way I can reach my computer firewire jack with a 3' cable. e-mailed sales support and asked for them to send me the correct length cable.
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So they made a tiny mistake. I'd go to the nearest computer store, get a 6ft cable for 5 bucks and be done with it. A 3 ft cable is actually great when using it with a laptop. Long cables are a nightmare then.


When I bought my Audiophile, the snake with the midi and spdif connectors turned out to be black instead of white like the picture on their (now) old website.

BIG DEAL. :)
 
FireWire cabels require a repeater (hub) if they are longer than 15 feet/4.5 meters.

And length of cable has nothing to do with latency, it has to do with line loss, and line noise which equates to errors and glitches when recording.
-k
 
christiaan said:
So they made a tiny mistake. I'd go to the nearest computer store, get a 6ft cable for 5 bucks and be done with it. A 3 ft cable is actually great when using it with a laptop. Long cables are a nightmare then.
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yes the 3 foot is perfect for my powerbook but no way it could reach the desktop. And I'm not going to go out an unnecessarily pay extra for something I already paid for. Anyways I emailed M-Audio about it and they were more than happy to send me the correct length cable. Contrary to popular mythology, most companies DO care about the happiness of their customers :cool:
 
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