Description

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 package for those who do not need eight stations 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 neighborhood mixing capability beyond that of the present Orpheus platform.

Lyra 2 in brief

• No-compromise, full 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)
• Ethernet interface with low-latency AVB capability
• Two Prism Sound premium-quality AD channels
  • Two high-end integrated microphone preamps (typ. -130dBu EIN)
  • Microphone inputs have switchable phantom power and 20dB pads
  • MS matrix on microphone inputs
  • Two high-impedance front panel instrument inputs
  • Prism Sound “Overkillers” to gracefully control transient overloads
• Four 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 on RCA/phono and TOSLINK connectors
  • S/PDIF stereo or ADAT 8 channel I/O supported on TOSLINK optical connectors
  • AES3 mode with I/O via RCA/XLR adaptor
  • Built in high-quality sample rate conversion
  • Prism Sound SNS noise shaping on digital outputs (4 curves)
  • Word-clock sync I/O
• 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