Behringer U-Control Uca202 Usb Audio Interface

I had this item in my wishlist for a long time and finally bought it. Totally worth its price. I use it with Audio Technica M20x monitor headphones and it's a very good combination.

I bought this to act as an external sound card/digital-to-analogue-converter (DAC) to improve the sound output from a laptop. I have found it to be absolutely excellent and remarkable value for money! Without this device sound output from laptops tends to be very flat with no dynamic range (e.g. an audible difference between quiet and loud sounds). Music lacks depth and feeling. However, as soon as you plug in this device the sound output from the computer is transformed: it goes from being 2D to 3D; from car stereo to hi-fi: the difference in quality is remarkable! The device is about the size of a cassette, and has both RCA outputs (to connect to a hi-fi) and a headphone output. You simply plug it into the USB port on you computer... plug some output cables into the device.... and it just works! There is no annoying software to install, and it works on PCs and Macs (I use both) Sometimes you may need to go into control panel/audio devices and select the 'USB Audio Codec' to activate it, but it really is straightforward. (The device also has audio inputs for recording instruments, but I haven't used it in that function so can't comment on performance.) For the price it's performance is fantastic. I even gave one to my boss as a present and he absolutely loves it too! Compared to more expensive devices I expect a 90/10 rule applies - this device gives you 90% of the performance for 10% of the price. If you listen to music through your laptop/computer through headphones or a hi-fi and value good sound quality, I highly recommend this device! Advantages: - Excellent performance for the price - Transforms sound quality from laptops - Small size - Easy to use - No annoying software - Works on Macs and PCs Disadvantages: - Low price won't impress hi-fi snob friends

review: Ultra-Low Latency 2 In/2 Out USB/Audio Interface with Digital Output Got this to do a quick and simple job recording vinyls to my laptop. Stereo L/R recording works. sample rate 48khz at 16bit res. Auto detected driver from win10. Matched it with free software Audacity. Initially had trouble recording stereo -- kept recording in mono. Ended up being windows not audacity . The trick for me was to CLOSE software (audacity) then open windows Sound manager -> Recording -> Mic properties -> Advanced -> pick a TWO CHANNEL recording format mode. For some strange reason when the driver auto installed, it picked ONE CHANNEL MONO recording only. And no matter what i did in Audacity, it would only record MONO. This trick allowed me to record in independent L / R channels. I was about to return this product as a defect until i realised this wasnt setup properly by default. Anyway, a few things about this product 1. nice clean simply recording -- i have no complaints. I wouldnt call this the most cleaning audio interface (like my steinberg box) but for the size and portability, its darn good. 2. headphone direct monitoring with no latency -- nice that it has this switch. very handy when youre trying to monitor the recording. 3. Also used as a DAC so you can OUtPUT to the audio interface to send the audio to external amp (via output RCA ) or just headphones from the unit 4. Headphone DAC has a small dial to control volume of headphone monitoring (nice!) for the price, portability, and function, this cannot be beat.

It's a great little unit, sounds good and does the job it's designed for real well. It you are using it on windows, just check you sound settings for the device as microsoft seems to have decided that a stereo device should be set to mono as it's default, which is real weird as windows knows & tells you it's a stereo microphone but still decides to remix it down to mono if you don't change you sound settings. Other than the windows issues, I've had no problem with the hardware, it's been plugged and unplugged lots of times without an issues. I would happy by any of the Behringer 202 range again.

mit diesem audio interface können audiosignale ohne Verluste der Qualität und ohne Störungen über den USB-Anschluss auf den PC gebracht werden, der nicht über einen Audioeingang verfügt. Erkennung und Installation des Gerätes verlaufen problemlos und schnell im Hintergrund. Die Nutzung ist selbsterklärend. Alle Anschlüsse wirken hochwertig und verhalten sich auch so. absolute Kaufempfehlung