Maybe I should do a null-test between two setups.
Yeah, I know people laugh about my 20-year old US-made analog Mackie 1202 VLZ Pro from ~2000. It is a fine little bus mixer monitor (plus headphones) that handles various outs from the patchbay. I don't want
any latency from the Fractal unit. It's got a lot of headroom. I've never attached a DAW interface to monitors or headphones without the
option of putting a hardware limiter between the DAW interface mains and the headphone or monitor bus. My stuff is clean, probably because I invested in great power management gear and balanced cables for my
fridge. I don't monitor or track much above 78-88 dB. I don't trust
any digital gear –no matter the marketing not to
eventually emit a white noise blast at 0dBFS. I hope to one day shrink the footprint down to an API lunchbox.