Asus Essence One MKII MUSES Edition User Guide - Page 8

Dedicated internal linear power supply ensures the cleanest audio A clean power source is crucial for ensuring minimal supply contamination and consistent power delivery. The toroidal comes with a specially designed silicon strip to prevent hysteresis loss The internal power supply supports all international voltages and has generous margins for over and under voltage conditions. It provides cleanest power for cleanest sound with excellent immunity to noise on the AC line. Minimal Clock Jitter with Asynchronous Data Transfer: Most USB audio uses Synchronous Data Transfer mode to adjust internal clock to compensate different data transfer rate between PC and USB Audio Device. However, the jitter is worse if the transfer rate is a lot different between PC and Device. For the Essence One Series, the USB DAC monitors the PC clock transfer speed and adjusts the data transfer speed accordingly based on a buffer status to the system. When the PC clock is firing too fast, this is regulated and the data transfer feed is adjusted to slow down and vice versa. This greatly improves the precision of digital audio and provides more detail with less listening fatigue. Bit-perfect with ASIO 2.2 driver: Bit-perfect mode allows user to use ASIO or similar function while doing audio playback, avoiding any sample rate conversion being done by PC's operating system. This feature keeps audio contents of all resolutions being played as its original sample rate without any potential quality loss during sample rate conversion. The ASIO 2.2 driver simplifies the process of multiple audio streams, bypassing latency issues in Windows, to deliver a low-latency, high fidelity sound file that is identical to the original audio file. Dedicated volume controls: Most USB DACs on the market only comes with one or no volume control for both headphone and speaker. This prevents user from keeping their favorite volume level and has to keep adjusting volume when switching between devices. Not to mention that a careless move can easily cause damage to your headphones. The Essence One Series has an independent volume control for headphone and speaker such that user can keep their favorite volume level without switching back and forth when listening to different output devices. Toslink and Coaxial S/PDIF inputs: The Essence One Series is fitted with both Coaxial and Toslink inputs, enabling connection of multiple sources. The digital inputs accept data formats at sample rates up to 192 kHz. Balanced XLR output: Essence One Series also features balanced (XLR) outputs. This is a higher quality output that is useful for eliminating unwanted noises and interference. Since a balanced line contains two signal carrying conductors of equal magnitude but opposite polarity, noises induced along the cable path cancel each other out when they reach the destination load. This makes balanced lines the professional applications for long cable connection which induced noises might be a problem. XLR connectors should be wired as follows: Pin 1- Ground; Pin 2- Hot (in-phase); Pin 3- Cold (phase-inverted). 8 ASUS Essence One Series