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# Ultra-low latency driver Fender co-developed instrument input +75 dB MAX-HD mic preamps Quantum ES 2 USB-C Audio Interface with Studio One Pro Software

**Brand:** presonus
**Price:** ¥64742
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## Summary

> 🎙️ Elevate your sound. Own the studio. Don’t just record—command your craft.

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- **What is this?** Quantum ES 2 USB-C Audio Interface with Studio One Pro Software by presonus
- **How much does it cost?** ¥64742 with free shipping
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## Best For

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## Why This Product

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## Key Features

- • **Studio-Grade Clarity:** Experience pristine sound with +75 dB MAX-HD mic preamps designed for today's top microphones.
- • **Pro Software Included:** Get a perpetual license for Studio One Pro, empowering your creativity with industry-leading recording tools right out of the box.
- • **Fender-Approved Inputs:** Guitarists and bassists get a pro-level instrument input co-developed with Fender engineers for authentic tone capture.
- • **Latency? What Latency?:** Custom low-latency drivers ensure your recordings stay tight and responsive, even in complex sessions.
- • **Seamless Control Anywhere:** Universal Control app lets you tweak preamp gain, phantom power, and monitoring from any device—desktop or mobile.

## Overview

The PreSonus Quantum ES 2 is a high-performance USB-C audio interface featuring ultra-low latency drivers, two transparent MAX-HD mic preamps with +75 dB gain, and a Fender co-developed instrument input. Designed for professional musicians and producers, it includes a perpetual license for Studio One Pro software and offers flexible control via a Universal Control app compatible with desktop and mobile devices. With 192 kHz sample rate support, bright LED metering, and loopback functionality, it delivers pristine audio quality and versatile monitoring options in a compact, solidly built unit.

## Description

Capture your creativity with the Quantum ES 2 - the recording interface for self-made musicians and audio creators. The culmination of 30 years of innovation, the Quantum ES 2 features two newly redesigned high-definition MAX-HD mic preamps with +75 dB of gain, making it ideally suited for today's most popular microphones. Guitarists and bassists will love the instrument input, co-developed with Fender engineers. An Auto Gain button sets the perfect gain level for your microphones and instruments, while an illuminated push encoder provides flexible control over gain level and output volume. And bright and responsive LED metering provides easy visual feedback for your inputs and outputs, making it great for self-produced recording

Review: Great audio interface with a few unusual quirks - This is above all a great sounding interface. I recently moved to this platform from an old Focusrite Saffore Pro 40 Firewire. I still have that interface in my studio so I was able to A/B compare it with the Quantum 2626 Thunderbolt 3 interface. The difference in sound quality is immediately apparent. The best and most detailed comparison I could make between the two was by listening to the same audio tracks played on both interfaces through a pair of Sony Z1R headphones. The dynamics and overall clarity of the Q 2626 is far superior to the Pro 40. It's a major upgrade. Perhaps that is to be expected due to the difference in age between the two platforms but I was always happy with the sound of the Pro 40, until I heard the Q 2626. I'd like to point out (as other reviewers have) what is perhaps thr biggest flaw in this unit, the lack of any hardware monitoring for any of the audio inputs. That omission has been fairly criticized but it's not a dead end to your workflow that some other reviewers have implied. If you plug anything into the XLR/TRS inputs on the Q 2626 you WILL NOT hear it through the headphone jacks or the main outputs without doing more setup. This is not what most people are used to with their audio interfaces and I'd never encountered it in over 20 uears of audio production using many different audio interfaces in that time. In order to hear your microphone, guitar, keyboard or whatever you have plugged in to the Q 2626 you need to open your DAW software of choice and route the audio signal through there first. For example you plug your mic or instrument into the front panel of the Q 2626, then open a new project your DAW program of choice. I will use Cakewalk by Bandlab for example as it's a well known and free DAW but the steps will be roughly the same for any DAW like Reaper, Studio One, Pro Tools, etc. Open a new project in your DAW software and select or insert an empty audio track, then press the button on the track that will enable Live Monitoring. In Cakewalk that would be the "input echo" button right next to the Record Arm button on the audio track. Once you do that you should immediately hear the audio from whatever you have plugged into the Q2626. If not then make sure you have the input on your audio track in your DAW set receive audio from the Q 2626 input where your mic or instrument is plugged in (Cakewalk has a drop down menu on the track to select this) and make sure the output on the same audio track is set to the Master Out for your mix, AND that your Master bus is set to output to the Q 2626. It's easy for any experienced audio engineer or hobbyist, and while it may be work for a beginner, once you get a track template set up and saved you just need to reload it each time you need to monitor or record and you're all set. That being said I do not prefer this implementation and would have liked Presonus to include a hardware mixer built in. I can only hope it was a worthwhile trade off from a design and engineering perspective and not some plan to get users hooked on subscription based audio production software from Presonus or to buy one of their outboard hardware mixers.. Even cheap $50 audio interfaces have hardware monitoring and have forever, but maybe a quality hardware monitoring implementation would have been too expensive? I'm stretching to give Presonus the benefit of the doubt here. There is an idea that because this is a Thunderbolt 3 interface that latency is a non factor, but there is always monitoring latency, and it will become worse if you are recording in a project with 100-200+ audio tracks and running dozens of plug in effects forcing you to increase the buffer size and adding more latency to live monitoring. Most people don't have such needs though, and others who do cam get around it by upgrading their computer hardware to be more powerful if necessary. That being said what matters in the end to me is the quality of the audio this thing can produce. I don't think you can do better for the money. It's much better than I was expecting as having heard other Presonus interfaces in the past I was not impressed, but this unit is different and exceeded my expectations for audio quality by quite a lot. The preamps are full bodied and quiet even when turned all the way up. They also deliver great dynamics (to my ears) and the DI for guitar & bass excels in my opinion. It passes a very full, dynamic and clean DI signal that amp sims should love. It sounds great with Neural DSP Architype plug ins for example, partly because of the quality of the input from the Q 2626 preamp (use a good quality guitar cable too). Vocally the preamps also sound great to me, although there is likely better out there if you want to spend a lot more. These will be more than enough for most people if they have a decent mic to plug in. Another point I want to make is about the power plug on the back of the Q 2626. Yes it's a small plug similar to one you'd see on an external hard drive or laptop computer, but what's not readily apparent is that it's a twist-to-lock plug. You have to insert it and give it a press-twist to lock it in place. Once that's done the plug will not wobble and will stay in place much more securely. The power button on the back of the unit was a design mistake. It's rack mount so most people can forget about being able to use it once the interface is racked. You'd have to leave it on 24/7 or rig it through a power strip or similar that has it's own on/off switch. If it's sitting on your desktop it's less of a problem, or you can rack it on the bottom and leave an open space to get your hand behind it. The unit is not very deep, only about 6 inches so it's not too bad if you have to do this. Build quality is solid. The unit jas a good weight to it and the volume knobs have a nice resistance to them, they don't feel like cheap loose spinners. As for Thunderbolt 3 just make sure you are set up correctly if it's not a native feature of your computer. In my case I run Windows 10 x64 on an AMD CPU platform that I built. My motherboard (Gigabyte) has a Thunderbolt header on it and I'm using Gigabyte's Titan Ridge 2.0 Thunderbolt 3 PCI card. In my case I had to make sure I was using the correct PCI slot (the PCI x4 slot, usually located as the bottom slot on newer motherboards) and had to make sure the thunderbolt header on the motherboard was plugged into the Titan Ridge card and that both power cables were plugged into the back of the Titan Ridge card. You may also need a BIOS update to unlock thunderbolt fucntionality depending on the age of your BIOS. If you are an Intel or Mac user and your system came with native thunderbolt support you won't have to worry about any of this, which is great. Assuming you have your thunderbolt connection properly set up you should get very good speed from this interface. If you are a windows user there are things you can do to further improve performance and reduce latency like turning off HPET, disabling C-States, setting power modes to max performance, and more you can look up elsewhere. I should mention that you WILL hear audio from your PC right out of the box when you plug the Q2626 in, so unlike jumping through hoops with live hardware monitoring, you can plug in to your conputer and hear audio from websites or games or MP3/FLAC players, or anything else. Quality is great too. Overall I feel this is a good unit for the money that should last many years. If you can deal with a few quirks then I think you'll find it worth your while as the quality of the audio makes up for any other shortcomings.
Review: Amazing Interface with Amazing Value! - Amazing interface. Preamps are and converters are so CLEAN!!!! Headphone amp has plenty gain. Presonus really did it with the new quantum interfaces. They easily expandable thru adat optical ports. The software is great and fairly self explanitory. The perpetual license for Studio One is a huge plus. Just wish they did a better job of explaining loopback setup in documentation. The documentation and explaination of features is the only comolaint I have, but if you just go thru the settings yourself thru trial and error, you can sort it all out. Took about 20 min to figure it out on my own. If they just fix the documentation for Universal Control, it would be perfect.

## Features

- HIGH PERFORMANCE SIGNAL FLOW. Our custom low-latency driver provides exceptionally low audio latencies when recording, and high-performance converters complete the front end to ensure that you sound your best throughout your entire signal chain.
- ALL-NEW MAX-HD MIC PREAMPS. The Quantum ES 2 features two newly designed mic preamps with +75 dB of gain. The culmination of 30 years of innovation, MAX-HD preamps are transparent, low-noise, and digitally-controlled analog, making them ideally suited to today’s most popular microphones.
- CO-DEVELOPED WITH FENDER. Built by the best ears in the business, guitarists and bassists will love the instrument input co-developed with Fender engineers – industry experts who designed them specifically for guitar and bass.
- PRO RECORDING SOFTWARE ACCESS INCLUDED: Studio One Pro perpetual license.
- AUTO GAIN. An Auto Gain button sets the perfect gain level for your microphones and instruments, so you get the perfect take every time.
- UNIVERSAL CONTROL APP. Quantum works on any mobile or desktop device, so you’re ready to record whenever inspiration strikes – whether on your phone, tablet, or in your home studio. Critical preamp functions like preamp gain, phantom power, and more can be controlled with the Quantum ES 2’s top panel, or right from Studio One and the Universal Control app, so you can dial in the perfect gain staging without looking away from your recording session.
- Bright and responsive LED metering lets you keep an eye on your input and output meters, perfect when recording alone.
- 2 balanced ¼-inch TRS main outputs and high-power headphone output for flexible monitoring.
- Loopback audio makes creating monitor and streaming mixes quick and easy.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B0CTFN85W3 |
| Audio Input | USB |
| Best Sellers Rank | #5,655 in Musical Instruments ( See Top 100 in Musical Instruments ) #52 in Computer Recording Audio Interfaces |
| Brand | PreSonus |
| Brand Name | PreSonus |
| Compatible Devices | Personal Computer, Microphone, Headphones, Speakers |
| Connectivity Technology | USB |
| Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 414 Reviews |
| Frequency Response | 192 KHz |
| Global Trade Identification Number | 00673454012303 |
| Item Dimensions D x W x H | 6.2"D x 6.9"W x 1.9"H |
| Item Weight | 680 Grams |
| Manufacturer | PreSonus |
| Maximum Sample Rate | 192 KHz |
| Number of Channels | 2 |
| Operating System | Windows, macOS |
| Supported Software | Studio One |
| UPC | 673454012303 |
| Warranty Description | 2 year manufacturer. |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** PreSonus
- **Compatible Devices:** Personal Computer, Microphone, Headphones, Speakers
- **Connectivity Technology:** USB
- **Number of Channels:** 2
- **Supported Software:** Studio One

## Images

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## Available Options

This product comes in different **Size, Style** options.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great audio interface with a few unusual quirks
*by S***N on January 10, 2023*

This is above all a great sounding interface. I recently moved to this platform from an old Focusrite Saffore Pro 40 Firewire. I still have that interface in my studio so I was able to A/B compare it with the Quantum 2626 Thunderbolt 3 interface. The difference in sound quality is immediately apparent. The best and most detailed comparison I could make between the two was by listening to the same audio tracks played on both interfaces through a pair of Sony Z1R headphones. The dynamics and overall clarity of the Q 2626 is far superior to the Pro 40. It's a major upgrade. Perhaps that is to be expected due to the difference in age between the two platforms but I was always happy with the sound of the Pro 40, until I heard the Q 2626. I'd like to point out (as other reviewers have) what is perhaps thr biggest flaw in this unit, the lack of any hardware monitoring for any of the audio inputs. That omission has been fairly criticized but it's not a dead end to your workflow that some other reviewers have implied. If you plug anything into the XLR/TRS inputs on the Q 2626 you WILL NOT hear it through the headphone jacks or the main outputs without doing more setup. This is not what most people are used to with their audio interfaces and I'd never encountered it in over 20 uears of audio production using many different audio interfaces in that time. In order to hear your microphone, guitar, keyboard or whatever you have plugged in to the Q 2626 you need to open your DAW software of choice and route the audio signal through there first. For example you plug your mic or instrument into the front panel of the Q 2626, then open a new project your DAW program of choice. I will use Cakewalk by Bandlab for example as it's a well known and free DAW but the steps will be roughly the same for any DAW like Reaper, Studio One, Pro Tools, etc. Open a new project in your DAW software and select or insert an empty audio track, then press the button on the track that will enable Live Monitoring. In Cakewalk that would be the "input echo" button right next to the Record Arm button on the audio track. Once you do that you should immediately hear the audio from whatever you have plugged into the Q2626. If not then make sure you have the input on your audio track in your DAW set receive audio from the Q 2626 input where your mic or instrument is plugged in (Cakewalk has a drop down menu on the track to select this) and make sure the output on the same audio track is set to the Master Out for your mix, AND that your Master bus is set to output to the Q 2626. It's easy for any experienced audio engineer or hobbyist, and while it may be work for a beginner, once you get a track template set up and saved you just need to reload it each time you need to monitor or record and you're all set. That being said I do not prefer this implementation and would have liked Presonus to include a hardware mixer built in. I can only hope it was a worthwhile trade off from a design and engineering perspective and not some plan to get users hooked on subscription based audio production software from Presonus or to buy one of their outboard hardware mixers.. Even cheap $50 audio interfaces have hardware monitoring and have forever, but maybe a quality hardware monitoring implementation would have been too expensive? I'm stretching to give Presonus the benefit of the doubt here. There is an idea that because this is a Thunderbolt 3 interface that latency is a non factor, but there is always monitoring latency, and it will become worse if you are recording in a project with 100-200+ audio tracks and running dozens of plug in effects forcing you to increase the buffer size and adding more latency to live monitoring. Most people don't have such needs though, and others who do cam get around it by upgrading their computer hardware to be more powerful if necessary. That being said what matters in the end to me is the quality of the audio this thing can produce. I don't think you can do better for the money. It's much better than I was expecting as having heard other Presonus interfaces in the past I was not impressed, but this unit is different and exceeded my expectations for audio quality by quite a lot. The preamps are full bodied and quiet even when turned all the way up. They also deliver great dynamics (to my ears) and the DI for guitar & bass excels in my opinion. It passes a very full, dynamic and clean DI signal that amp sims should love. It sounds great with Neural DSP Architype plug ins for example, partly because of the quality of the input from the Q 2626 preamp (use a good quality guitar cable too). Vocally the preamps also sound great to me, although there is likely better out there if you want to spend a lot more. These will be more than enough for most people if they have a decent mic to plug in. Another point I want to make is about the power plug on the back of the Q 2626. Yes it's a small plug similar to one you'd see on an external hard drive or laptop computer, but what's not readily apparent is that it's a twist-to-lock plug. You have to insert it and give it a press-twist to lock it in place. Once that's done the plug will not wobble and will stay in place much more securely. The power button on the back of the unit was a design mistake. It's rack mount so most people can forget about being able to use it once the interface is racked. You'd have to leave it on 24/7 or rig it through a power strip or similar that has it's own on/off switch. If it's sitting on your desktop it's less of a problem, or you can rack it on the bottom and leave an open space to get your hand behind it. The unit is not very deep, only about 6 inches so it's not too bad if you have to do this. Build quality is solid. The unit jas a good weight to it and the volume knobs have a nice resistance to them, they don't feel like cheap loose spinners. As for Thunderbolt 3 just make sure you are set up correctly if it's not a native feature of your computer. In my case I run Windows 10 x64 on an AMD CPU platform that I built. My motherboard (Gigabyte) has a Thunderbolt header on it and I'm using Gigabyte's Titan Ridge 2.0 Thunderbolt 3 PCI card. In my case I had to make sure I was using the correct PCI slot (the PCI x4 slot, usually located as the bottom slot on newer motherboards) and had to make sure the thunderbolt header on the motherboard was plugged into the Titan Ridge card and that both power cables were plugged into the back of the Titan Ridge card. You may also need a BIOS update to unlock thunderbolt fucntionality depending on the age of your BIOS. If you are an Intel or Mac user and your system came with native thunderbolt support you won't have to worry about any of this, which is great. Assuming you have your thunderbolt connection properly set up you should get very good speed from this interface. If you are a windows user there are things you can do to further improve performance and reduce latency like turning off HPET, disabling C-States, setting power modes to max performance, and more you can look up elsewhere. I should mention that you WILL hear audio from your PC right out of the box when you plug the Q2626 in, so unlike jumping through hoops with live hardware monitoring, you can plug in to your conputer and hear audio from websites or games or MP3/FLAC players, or anything else. Quality is great too. Overall I feel this is a good unit for the money that should last many years. If you can deal with a few quirks then I think you'll find it worth your while as the quality of the audio makes up for any other shortcomings.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazing Interface with Amazing Value!
*by A***H on November 5, 2025*

Amazing interface. Preamps are and converters are so CLEAN!!!! Headphone amp has plenty gain. Presonus really did it with the new quantum interfaces. They easily expandable thru adat optical ports. The software is great and fairly self explanitory. The perpetual license for Studio One is a huge plus. Just wish they did a better job of explaining loopback setup in documentation. The documentation and explaination of features is the only comolaint I have, but if you just go thru the settings yourself thru trial and error, you can sort it all out. Took about 20 min to figure it out on my own. If they just fix the documentation for Universal Control, it would be perfect.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Bloatware free, high quality mic amp
*by T***Y on July 16, 2025*

Best standalone mic adc/amp I have used; coming with a copy of Studio One 7 was also a nice touch. Huge plus: there is minimal bloatware. You will probably want to install the official drivers so that you don't have dozens of input devices, but it isn't absolutely necessary and the software to control this is both unobtrusive and minimal. For the amp itself, the automatic gain isn't as great as others have made it out to be from my personal use, but the total gain available and audio quality is better than any other mic adc/amp I have used. It doesn't have as many available effects OOTB, like an analog compressor, but that can be done inline or via effects. I am not really much of a musician (hobbyist at best), so I can't speak too much for Studio One 7, but it works with my generic midi keyboard and has a sufficient number of instruments available. My plan was to get a low noise, higher gain mic amp that had minimal intrusive software bloat and this delivers.

## Frequently Bought Together

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