Antelope Zen Go Synergy Core

I was very sceptical about ordering this after viewing a lot of negative reviews on social media.

Build quality is very solid, and the rotary wheel doesn't make constant clicking sound when turning, as I've seen some claim. Display viewing angle is about 45°, and you have to be about 50cm away to see it clearly.

Set-up didn't work by following Antelope's instructions. Tried to have a chat with technical support, but gave up reaching them after couple of hours. --Important: you have to download a separate USB-driver to get the interface to work!!!---

Coming from Audient ID14 MK1: Zen Go has very slightly more crystal clear detailed sound and tighter bass, and more of a 3D-sound..like surround. Not a night and day difference by any means. RTL was about 10ms on Audient at 96kHz, 128 samples, but on Zen Go I can have 96kHz, 16 samples, and about 4ms, just insane!

I've had the Antelope Launcher lose USB-connection few times, but you still can use the interface normally, except for the Control Panel. Some minor things too like when connecting to the inputs, I had to click inverse phase 2 times to get the sound correct etc.

Control Panel is somewhat confusing to use, if you're used to more basic interfaces. Love the bundle from Thomann to get all the afx-plugins with the interface! They require a bit of getting used to, and overall they're quite nice...nothing stellar, but usable, was expecting a bit higher quality tbh.

Oma mielipiteeni. Antelopen äänenlaatu on todellakin hyvää tasoa. Äänenlaatu jopa yllätti miten hyvältä se kuulosti. Zengo on helppo ja selkeä käyttää.
Tässä tuotteessa hinta laatusuhde osuu aika hyvin kohdalleen. nauhoituksia on hyvä tehdä kun kehuttu latency on juuri sitä luokkaa mitä kehutaan.

Jotain negatiivista jos täytyy keksiä niin kaupan päälle tulevat Pluginit piti itse metsästää tuesta ja niiden asentaminen ei ollut ihan normaalin kaavan mukainen. Mutta varmasti on helppoa jos hallitsee atk:n salat

Kaikin puolin suosittelen tuotetta mikäli haluaa "edullisen" sekä laadukkaan tuotteen.

Очень доволен своим выбором в пользу Zen Go. Интерфейс действительно звучит хорошо, имеет низкие задержки. С Kemper Amp и в связке с Cubase отлично работает. Огромное также спасибо команде Antelope Audio за качественную и быструю поддержку. До этого использовал карты Roland Quad Capture и Focusrite Clarett 2pre и испытывал с ними проблемы. Однозначно Zen Go превосходит их вместе взятых как по качеству, так и по софту . Рекомендую получше присмотретьсяк данному интерфейсу!

I am Windows 10 user, I don't have MAC so I will speak from Windows/PC side only

Handling: 2/5
As other mentioned volume control knob is 1 for all 3 outs. There is a button you have to click to choose which out you control. Not practical at all. I swap 2 headphones very frequently + my monitos and this is big issue.

Features: 3/5
This device claims to have some great features like internal effects (DSP) on channels, but for example there is no MIDI IN/OUT , Software is complicated and buggy - Antelope constantly update it, but still it looks unfinished, made in a hurry. It has little screen with very nice level indicator. There was a BUG with screen brighness, when it was <100% it creates noise in monitors. Antelope was able to fix it with firmware update, but come on, this is untested hardware.

Sound: 2/5
I read many reviews about how great antelope converters are, and how good is their sound. This was not the case for me, I had very bad ground loop noise on USB, in my monitors, and it went even worst when I move my mouse. No matter what I switched off and changed it did not disappear. Contacted support on this, and after all the tests, they recommended to test the device on other PC system. It works on my Laptop in the office fine. Thou my 2 desktops had this ground loop noise in monitors. Support is slow, and was not able to help me, and the fact I can use this only on my laptop is not fine too.

I have Focusrite 4PRE usb and 2 Pre USB too. Both work great on same PC/monitors.

Headphone Out is weak, they made an firmware update which helped a little, but my 250ohm Neumann NDH20 must have almost 100% volume to sound good.

Quality: 3/5
Construction looks good, supplied cable is good - but something like electrical filters is missing IMHO

Overall: 2/5

Really bad experience with this device. This is my 6th or 7th Interface, and most of the others were cheaper. I never had such bad experience.

You need to register and activate device even for simple drivers to work.

The promised promotion code was delayed more than 7 days in my mailbox, and that was after I opened a ticket in support site.

Control panel is kind of complicated, they fixed load time a little - my started in 10-12 seconds.

ADAT has only 2 channels as INPUT - so you can't really expand it.

After uninstalling software, I had to clean services manually because they were not removed even after PC restart. Bad software quality for sure.

Oh and did I mention - no MIDI IN/OUT

Product need a lot of software polish and some hardware rework, maybe V2 or V3 will be good with promised features.