Roland EDIROL UA-25 USB Audio Interface 2009 Silver

Key Features

• 2 Input / 2 Output
  
• 2 High-End microphone preamps using premium analog components
  
• Built-In Analog Limiter
  
• Mac OS X
  
• Windows XP/Vista
  
• USB powered two channel audio interface
  
• High-resolution 24-bit/96kHz performance 
• Solid aluminum chassis - portable and durable 
  
• Powerful analog electronics coupled with well-matched A/D and D/A converters for superior audio fidelity
  
• XLR/TRS combo jacks with 48V phantom power, Hi-Z port for guitar-direct connection, S/PDIF coaxial and optical I/O and MIDI I/O
• Zero latency direct monitoring
  

The UA-25 from Edirol is a USB Audio/MIDI interface designed to offer premium sound quality, rugged durability and complete portability to the computer-based audio engineer. The unit is compact enough to travel anywhere and is housed in a high-grade aluminum chassis, an excellent shield against high-frequency interference from other electrical sources.

Although the interface is USB powered, it still manages to power condenser microphones with 48V phantom power and outputs audio at +4dBu from the balanced 1/4" outputs. Also included is a power set of direct monitor controls that allows one to route audio directly from the inputs to the outputs and the headphone jack, making latency a non-issue. Direct monitoring can be turned on or off, relative volume of the input signal adjusted compared to the audio playing out from the computer, and even have the signal set to monitor in mono.

The UA-25 includes a mild analog compressor built into the interface. This allows a little more discrepancy in setting the microphone levels and allows the user more freedom from audio clipping. 24-bit/96kHz audio performance, MIDI I/O, S/PDIF optical I/O, Neutrik XLR/TRS inputs with high-grade microphone preamps make the interface everything needed to get superb audio to and from a computer. With ASIO 2.0, WDM, MME and CoreAudio support, the unit offers a wide variety of support for both Mac and PC.