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The small and extremely portable (9x9 cm) U2A (formerly called the U24), a 24-bit USB audio interface, offers three stereo inputs (coaxial, optical, and analog), and its output signal is available on all three output formats at the same time. This feature allows the U2A to double as a signal converter between coaxial and optical.

The analog I/Os feature 24-bit A/D/A converters on 1/4" unbalanced connections. The U2A supports three sampling rates (32, 44.1, and 48k) and offers a real-time hardware sample rate converter.

The unit will ship with MME and DirectSound drivers for Windows 98 and a Windows 2000 WDM driver, as well as a two-meter USB cable. Macintosh compatibility is expected through a forthcoming Mac OS update. Ego-Sys plans to announce shipping date and suggest a retail price for the U2A soon.

Audioterminal 24 combines audio and sound cards for greater flexibility.

Also from Ego-Sys, the Audioterminal 24 combines a PCI card that features 18 channels of audio I/O (two ADAT ports, AES/EBU or S/PDIF I/O), 32 MIDI I/O, WordClock I/O and ADAT sync, and a "sound card" type of daughterboard fitted with mono mic input, line inputs and outputs, stereo headphone/line out, a joystick/MPU-401 port, and another S/PDIF digital output.

The Audioterminal 24 supports 96kHz recording through its AES/EBU and S/PDIF connectors and comes with an expansion port on the mainboard for a future upgrade of 18 channels of 24-bit/96kHz digital audio I/O.

The unit comes with ASIO 2.0, DirectSound, and MME drivers for Windows 95/98 as well as Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 drivers.

Suggested retail is $659. Release date has yet to be announced.

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