Antelope Zen Go Synergy Core

AMAZING

Top DAC Top plugins Nice interface Good build quality Cons: Antelope website and soft is a bit laggy, but 90% of time it's fine

The best one

Good sound, good delivery, was careful, all its perfect

Great interface, inappropriate cable

A great audio interface, simple and effective. However, to be noted the fact that for the interface to run flawlessly without pops and crackles, it requires a high speed USB 3 cable. Antelope ship the device with a USB 2 cable. Shame.... After too many hours troubleshooting, I finally figured out where the clicks and pops were coming from.

Good sound

Excellent device, the sound is amazing, the quality too. But the only problem with the software was that the card could not be added to the personal account on the manufacturer's website. Wrote in support and understood. It took two days. With the exception of connecting and registering a card with Antelope's personal account, I have not yet seen any cons.

Works great with Linux

I'm a technical science communicator, reliant on using Linux. Linux has very poor audio support, and so the thing I was most interested in with this device was being able to build a nice vocal channel for streaming, presentations, calls etc. that is not dependent on the computer.

As the device is class compliant, it works totally fine with Linux, you just don't have ability to configure the plugins. However, I can do that in Windows, save to a preset and then I can select which preset to use for my task while using Linux.

I have 3 presets I use the most:

1/- clean - nothing, using for recording videos that I will process later

2/- voice channel - gentle compression and limiting, eq and a bit of a boost

3/- extreme monitoring - I often get a sore throat when I have lots of meetings, so I use the 2nd headphone monitor as an extremely loud monitor of my audio. That helps me talk softly, but an unprocessed version is sent to the conference. As the gain is so high, the background noise is loud, so I also add a gate on my monitor to make it less fatiguing.

Hopefully that gives you an idea of the flexibility of this unit.

The build quality is great, very solid. As others have said, the screen is a bit hard to read especially if there are reflections. The knob clicks too loud. And there could be more knobs/buttons, to make less combinations to change presets, adjust levels etc.

Sound quality is excellent, very low noise and a lot of mic gain. 2 monitors is also very nice. I never send the mic through the first monitor so I can't ever get feedback issues when I have my loud speakers on.

The bundled plugins seem good, but I'm just learning how to use them tbh. I would have liked some more 'basic' stuff like the ableton limiter, gate. Everything is 'vintage'. It would be amazing to load a VST into it and have it stored for use without the PC.

I had problems with some of the plugins not working, but the antelope support has been very fast to help and by using an older firmware I have all the plugins working now.

Expensive, but does the job and lets me do pro level audio processing without a windows / mac computer.

Absolutely fantastic

The best audio interface I've ever had

Unbelievable

Absolutely love it!

Can't believe the audio quality coming out of this unit .

I got the edge solo microphone too. I couldn't get some features but Antelope truly were helpful.

The on board effects are amazing . I can't believe the audio quality I'm getting out of this

Definitely a good buy

Great piece of equipment!!

Zen Go is a great sounding piece of equipment.

Highly recommended for those who wants great specs in such a small box.

Great crafthmaship.

Tnx Antelope..

The Best in the Price Range

Overall I am very satisfied with performance of the interface.

The sound is crisp and clear. Latency of onboard DSP is very low and selection of the FX is huge.

I am using onboard DSP to fix frequency response of the room a little bit. Double headphone output comes in handy to monitor clean unprocessed mix in headphones.

I am taking one star off for handling - zengosc mixer is not very user friendly and takes time to figure out the routing. Multifunctional volume knob that controls everything from output level to input gain can also be tricky to handle.

I am taking another star off quality as the volume knob tends to skip sometimes when adjusted.

That leaves us at 4.5 out of 5 which is a great score in my opinion.

I'd love to have ADAT instead of SPDIF, but you get what you pay for. This has been marketed as mobile audio interface at the end of the day.

Go for Zen Q if budget allows!

Bought this product because of its top of the line ADA converters. However, everything in this unit is well thought from end to end. The Synergy Core processing, effects included and specially the preamps, which sound CRYSTAL CLEAR and have huge headroom.