I had a 1/8" stereo 12" techflex cable with RA neutrik connectors custom made on here (can't remember from who) a while back from the 3.5mm out I used to run into my M10 from a mixpre and mixpre-d. I wouldn't consider anything SD necessarily delicate. that was a pretty bomb proof connection with those metal RA neutrik 1/8" connectors into the mixpre out. (a side note, my buddy was plugging his ipod into my car one time with that 12" cable and was so jealous I had it custom made lol. had never heard of such a thing)
It looked like you had stereo input to the mixpre-6 in your screenshot earlier, guessing that's a single usb-c connection, with power from the mini?
is that what you were asking?
yes. i like the amp. just curious. i'm not a huge fan of my komplete audio 6, and would like to replace it with something much more substantial, simply as an interface to my (powered) HS7 from my main desktop. I know the outputs on the mixpre-6 are fairly limited. I could run the stereo out into a mixer (which would be useful for some other stuff), but OTOH my main desktop stays powered on around the clock and not sure i want to run the mixpre-6 24/7.
I do need to also use the P48 inputs also for some "studio" work (voice over, live broadcasting), which I can definitely make happen with the mixpre-6 now.
My mixpre has spent less than 72 hours "off" since the pandemic began, and none of that on battery power.
I run it constantly via USB-C as the sound interface.
Bought some external SSD's recently though, and noticed that the Anker branded skinny USB-C cable I'm using is NOT sufficient to run a Samsung T5 or T7, though it powers the mixpre with "green" levels via the M1 USB-C port.
That said, I have a Kingston Nucleum USB-C hub which I plug into one of my MacMini Thunderbolt 4 ports (they are backward compatible with Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C)
When I plug the MixPre6 vI into the Nucleum hub via the Anker cable which came with my USB-C battery, I only get "amber" power levels, enough for two but not four channels of Kashmir preamp.
When I plug the MixPre6 vI into the M1 MacMini Thunderbolt/USB-C ports directly with that same cable, it gets "green" levels of power on the indicator, so it could run four channels of 48v phantom if needed.
v6.0 firmware currently on my Mixpre6