S/PDIF optical output sends digital signals to digital destinations
Headphone jack for direct monitoring of your computer audio & input signals
Ideal for use with laptops where audio quality is all but ignored
Offers superior audio quality, versatility & the last word in portability
Perfect for archiving audio on your computer, or playing it back from the computer through your home stereo
Editorial Review:
Product DescriptionThe UA-1X is a simple USB audio interface designed to offer component-quality audio signals to and from your computer. The UA-1X offers superior sound quality input and output from the computer through RCA jacks. The UA-1X also has an S/PDIF optical output to send digital signals to digital destinations and a headphone jack for direct monitoring of your computer audio and input signals.The UA-1X is ideal for use with laptops where audio quality is all but ignored. The UA-1X offers superior audio quality, a great deal of versatility, and the utmost in portability. It is ideal for archiving audio on your computer or playing it back from the computer through your home stereo.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - No Mac drivers for dolby pass through
This device works just fine, but if you want to use the digital output for dolby or dts passthrough on mac os x, forget it. It works with system drivers that do not allow for surround sound
Rating: - Overlooked is the great S/PDIF optical output
I have used the UA-1X connected to several different higher end audio systems. The S/PDIF optical (Toslink) interconnect is highly underrated for isolating the relatively dirty computer power from quality audio equipment = no ground loops, no electronic chatter, squaks or feedback through the optical connections. The Roland Edirol passes better than CD quality audio to and from stereos, amplifiers and mixers = no problem found. Statements by others that the audio line input (audio capture) is not ... Read More
Rating: - The right tool for the right job.
This unit is perfectly geared for people who use professional recording software on Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms. This is *not* a sound card, it is a professional digital audio interface, they're two totally different things! But, anybody that knows computer based music already knows that. I've used it with Cakewalk Home Studio and CoolEdit Pro under Windows 2000, Garage Band on Mac OS X, and Studio To Go (a Linux based MIDI/Audio studio package). Not a single bit of trouble with any program ... Read More
Rating: - This probably is a crap device, but...
..to the reviewer before me, what are you recording into?
Generally you don't use Windows Mixer to engineer your masterpiece...you would control the levels in your sequencer software, such as ProTools, Sonar or even CoolEdit!!
But never windows...
Rating: - Buyer Beware - Not a good line-in option
This device offers practically no control of line-level inputs. I purchased the UA-1X and was very disappointed. I had hoped to use it with my laptop as a line-in. However, I found the unit completely bypassed the Mixer in Windows, so no level adjustments could be made in XP. The unit has a two level input gain switch, but I found with the unit connected to the preamp out on my preamplifier that the high gain setting resulted in excessive clipping, and the low gain setting was too low. Practically ... Read More
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Electronics : EDIROL UA-1X USB Audio Interface ( PC / Mac )
- No Mac drivers for dolby pass through
- Overlooked is the great S/PDIF optical output