[本年潛力股?]Meridian The Explorer Pocket-Sized USB DAC

hiyori

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由大廠Meridian出品的小型USB一體式DAC+耳擴，有24/192，獨立HP out，一體式Lo+opt out，而且用上xmos chips，pcm5102本身可以支持24/384，也許可以期待firmware upgrade來開通(雖然可能受制於L1?)，行asyn，800系的外殼，基本上現在玩家喜歡的硬參數優點都齊備

而價錢竟然只是定於USD299 (雖然TTVJ是299.95)，實在非常有競爭力啊。

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詳細SPEC

Inputs: USB mini type B

Outputs: 3.5mm combination analog/digital jack with mini Toslink digital optical <96 kHz output and 2-ch analog line out, fixed 2V RMS; 3.5mm jack with variable-level headphone output, 130mW into 16Ω.

Construction: Extruded Aluminium shell with moulded plastic endcaps and rubber foot.

Power: USB, nominal 5V at <500mA.

Indicators: Three white LEDs show connected state and audio stream rate.

Implementation:
USB audio class compliant 2.0 HS 480Mb/s bandwidth.
Asynchronous: device is the clock source for high quality.

Firmware upgrade via USB.

Windows drivers provided, no drivers required for Macintosh OS X or Linux.

Analogue volume control for headphone output, controlled from PC, control law modified to match connected OS.

S/PDIF output downsamples 4x (192/176.4kHz) to 2x (96/88.2kHz).

OS Requirements
Macintosh OS X 10.6.4 (Snow Leopard) or later
Windows XP SP3, Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 8
Linux kernel 2.6.37 or later and ALSA version 1.0.32 or greater

斯路

咦原來係有phone out架呢
睇黎真係唔錯
可以諗諗佢呢

calcal

同dragonfly都好似!