Trends UD-10.1 Lite USB Audio ConverterTrends UD-10.1 Lite USB Audio Converter Product Description:
Bypass the sound card , Trends Audio UD-10.1 Lite USB Audio Converter provides a great value way for audiophiles or general consumers to play music from computer. It offers the user a combination of a transport, DAC and an out-board sound card in one tiny little case. With a high quality built in DAC that allows the user to hook up between a computer with a USB port and an external DAC(Digital to Analog Converter). Trends UD-10.1 Lite USB Audio Converter allows you to access music files from the computer, listen to internet radio, even watch movies from the computer with high end sound coming from your main system. If you don't have an external DAC, with the RCA outputs adaptor and the 3.5mm headphone jack, the Trends UD-10.1 Lite USB Audio Converter allows the user to hook up to any line level inputs such as integrated amp(TA-10.2 Class-T amp), preamp(PA-10 Tube preamp) and home theater receiver to play computer music through those systems.
- high-end Burr Brown PCM2704 IC for USB audio conversion and provide all functions of Audiophile USB Transport, USB DAC and headphone amplifier.
- separated digital/analog ground. The digital GND (network) and the analog GND (solid) is totally separated except connected via a ferrite bread in a single point. It effectively reduce interference between digital signals and analog signals.
- 4pins high accuracy crystal clock (±25ppm) and Option to use USB bus power [convenient] or external power [better sound] (e.g. Trends PW-10 PSU or AA size rechargeable battery 1.2V x4=5V, don't use normal batteries with 1.2V x4=6V, it would be too high for safety and good sound performance)
- works as an external sound card with various formats of digital output and decoded headphone output. It effectively isolated the serious interference from within the PC/Mac case. e.g. the high frequency data signals, the switching-mode power supply and the FAN motors, etc...
- plug-and-play without driver installation for most PC/Mac operating systems, e.g. Windows OS, Linux OS and Mac OS. upgrades your PC/Mac to be a hi-end audio source. Thanks to the excellent power supply handling, the high accuracy clock and the sophisticated digital output circuit, the Trends UD-10.1 makes your PC/Mac to behave as a high-end CD transport to work with an external DAC. Yet, the Trends UD-10.1 and PC/Mac combination provides better sound quality, larger storage capacity and a more user-friendly interface than most standard CD players.
