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Anyone check this out yet?http://www.trendsaudio.com/EN/Product/USB_Audio_feature.htm
I saw it on 6moons. The specs sound really impressive, especially for $89!
I sent them an e-mail to see if it is bit perfect and can do 24bit / 96khz.
-Jim
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Now THIS is more like it:http://www.productionforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=7091
and
http://www4.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=190557
It is quite a bit more expensive than the Trends Audio, but it looks like it is pretty solid for an off-the-shelf solution.
I bought one Friday, and the sound is amazing. The AKM4396 and USB is very nice.However, I may return it since on 1.8gz Pentium M it takes over 40-50% of CPU to do 44.1, and spikes the processor to upsample to 88.2.
I have not given up since the sound quality is strikingly good. Perhaps a driver update for the USB port on the laptop, or some other tweak will work. At this time though, it is a CPU hog on my system.
Do you use this device (0404 USB) with an external DAC, or with the built-in DAC?
LynnThanks for the info! Too bad its such a resource hog! :(
Are you outputting via ASIO?
Yes, I am using Foobar and ASIO. I would really like to keep it since it does sound great, but I have to solve the CPU issue.
Thanks Lynn. Please keep us posted with your devlopments. I have to think there's a solution there (at least I'm hopeful there's one!)Sounds like a really great product...especially paired up with a good linear power supply.
forget the 24/96 they use the PCM 2704 chips
44,1 or 48KHZ only..
I think they are not using USB 2.0. Only USB 1.1. And the bandwidth is good for 24/44.1 or 24/48. It should not be problem as most sources are 16/44.1 anyway.Using Windows driver? Is it a problem? I use ASIO4ALL and it sounds pretty good.
Not sure why they wouldn't make it work with 24/96?!
Wrong chip choice because they did not want to pay for a custom driver. This uses the lousy Windows driver. You get what you pay for.
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