New Trends UD-10 USB Audio Converter

Trends designed their new UD-10 USB Audio Converter to keep it isolated from computer devices that are prone to causing signal interference. The UD-10 works as an external sound card with various formats of digital output and decoded headphone output.

The Trends UD-10 can serve four different functions:
1. Audiophile USB Transport (provide a digital interface to connect to your own DAC)
2. External USB sound card for PC and Mac
3. PC/Mac USB Headphone Amplifier
4. PC/Mac USB DAC

The USB and headphone jacks are on the front panel (can convert to a pair of RCA audio output with the bundled adaptor). The back panel is mainly the digital outputs (optical x1, coaxial x2 (RCA & BNC), AES/EBU x1) and the external power supply socket.

FEATURES:
- High-end Burr Brown PCM2704 IC for USB audio conversion.
- Proprietary dual power regulation circuits.
- Separate digital/analog grounds.
- Option to use USB bus power [convenient] or external power [better sound].
- High accuracy 4pin crystal clock (±10ppm).
- Applied RS422 driving IC to concurrently drive 4 groups of balanced & non-balanced digital outputs.
- Proprietary impedance matching circuits for AES/EBU(110ohm) and Coaxial(75ohm) digital outputs.
- Specially designed pulse transformers for each AES/EBU and Coaxial outputs to further isolate interference from UD-10 to the external DAC.
- Plug-and-play without driver installation for most PC/Mac operating systems.
- Audiophile grade materials and electronic components, including the high-quality Japanese/Korean precise SMD resistors and capacitors. The power filtering and decoupling is done using Sanyo OS-CON solid-state electrolyte capacitors. The analog signal decoupling and coupling utilizes ELNA Silmic electrolyte capacitors and WIMA MKP10 film capacitors.

Price on the UD-10 will be $109.

- Tends UD-10 USB Audio Converter
- Source: 6Moons.com