<img src="http://www.computeraudiophile.com/files/wave.gif" style="padding: 10pt 10pt 10pt 10pt;" align="left"> Wavelength Audio, widely known to produce some of the best USB DACs available, has released a slew of updated products and one totally new USB DAC. All of which were on display at CES 2008. The new DAC is called the Proton. It is a 24/96 LiIon Battery Asynchronous USB dac with Headphone output and will sell for $900. The Proton is for desktops, home audio, travel or any application you see fit. Accordingn to Gordon Rankin of Wavelength the idea was to "make a dac that could run without an external power supply and still sound wonderful." The Proton uses USB to power the necessities. The critical DAC and headphone outputs use the extra clean power from the battery. The Proton supports 24 bit data rates at 44.1, 48, 88.2 and 96K and has four LEDs on the rear panel to indicate which rate is locked in. The headphone volume will be controlled through a software interface. A volume control icon will appear on the computer desktop. Setting this volume slider will set the Proton headphone output level accordingly. This DAC should make a great addition to just about anyone's music server. Since it only supports USB input the canned music server folks are out of luck, but for those with custom music servers be sure to check this out. Based on the quality of Gordon's past and present DACs I expect nothing less from the $900 Proton. Read more for photos of this new DAC. <!--more-->
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