![]() Trends Audio remains one of the leading champions of budget gear and what you obtain elsewhere for less than 200 dollars is nowadays still often next to nothing. I would answer first that it is always of interest to know precisely what one can have for the money. Last but not least, does the bigger Trends UD-10.1 still represent fair value compared to its little brother the UD-10.1 USB Lite?.Is it not more recommendable to spend a few extra dollars on a better and more recent USB DAC especially if you consider that the Trends will require an additional and maybe quite costly digital cable?.Does the Trends continue to represent a particularly good choice to put one foot into the digital audio streaming universe for a low price?.Hence a few questions now seem quite unavoidable: At the dusk of 2009, it is nevertheless quite difficult to make a fair assessment of the Trends Audio device when plenty of new USB converters have entered the market at various prices. That’s an affordable way to feed your existing external DAC or the open digital input of your AV receiver directly from your Mac or PC. More than a standard USB DAC in fact, the Trends UD-10.1 can take the USB input signal from any computer and output bit-perfect coaxial, optical or AES digital audio or send it decoded to a headphone output. It became an audiophile gateway to get into the music server game for next to nothing. ![]() $169 for UD-10.1 and $13 for the battery pack and charger.Ĭontext: The Trends Audio UD-10.1 USB audio converter has been one of the few dirt-cheap choices in the field of USB audio converters and digital interfaces between our computers and digital audio equipment. Loudspeakers: JLA Acoustique Perspective 2 signature + Stand 80, McIntosh LS360, Venus Acoustique Caldeira Signature Ĭables: Naturelle Audio XLR cables Live 8 and Live 4 interconnects, RW Silver series RCA interconnect cables, Lintek RCA-CS interconnects and digital cable PSV- 063 Headphones AKG K701, AKG K240 Monitor, NuForce UF-30, Shure EC2 Integrated amplifiers: Vincent SV-238, Luxman L-590 A II Source: Audio Analogue Grand Maestro CD, Luxman D-06, Apple iMac, Trends UD-10.1 USB lite, Zhaolu D-3.5 This is the 12th in a series of reviews dedicated to the concept of 32Ohm Audio as embodied by the store of that name in downtown Portland/Oregon and described here - Ed.
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