New! Lyra USB Audio Interface Family members
The Lyra Family of audio interfaces offers Prism Sound performance at its most affordable ever. They are based on Orpheus audio path and clock circuitry, but in a smaller packagel for those who do not need eight channels of analog I/O. There are two models Lyra 1 and Lyra 2.
Lyra is based upon brand-new ARM Cortex-based "XCore" processor design which provides class-compliant USB and Ethernet AVB interfacing, plus DSP and local mixing capability beyond that of the present Orpheus platform.
Lyra 1 in brief
- No-compromise Prism Sound audio quality
- Class compliant (UAC2) USB interface
- ASIO and WDM drivers for Windows (32 and 64bit)
- Native CORE AUDIO on Mac OS X
- UAC2 operation on Linux (no control panel support)
- Two Prism Sound premium-quality AD channels
- One high-end integrated microphone preamps (typ. -130dBu EIN)
- Microphone input has switchable phantom power and 20dB pad
- One high-impedance front panel instrument input
- Prism Sound "Overkillers" to gracefully control transient overloads
- Two Prism Sound premium-quality DA channels, plus independent stereo headphone DA
- Outputs selectable between workstation bus or Lyra mixer
- New high-drive headphone output with front-panel volume control
- Digital I/O
- S/PDIF stereo on TOSLINK optical connectors
- Built in high-quality sample rate conversion available on digital input
- Prism Sound SNS noise shaping on digital outputs (4 curves)
- Low-latency "console-quality" digital mixer for foldback monitoring
- Fader, pan, cut, solo on every mixer channel
- Front-panel master volume control, assignable to selected channels
- State-of-the-art clock generation with proprietary hybrid 2-stage DPLL
- Fully-floating (isolated) balanced architecture for optimum noise rejection
