Douk Audio U2Pro Digital Interface Upgrade is Being Planned and Waiting for Your Advice!

[Douk Audio]

Hello all ASR members,

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving Day with your family and friends!
Douk Audio appreciated all of you so much for providing many feedback and opinions on our products, some new ones shared here before such as A5 digital amplifier with HPF, VU2PRO etc. will be released in the following months, let's wait togehter.

Recently, our PD is going to upgrade our U2PRO digital interface (USB to IIS/Coaxial/Optical adapter) according to users' feedback.
I noticed some of you used our U2 or U2pro, so I sincerely invite you to post your opinions and and shape it together! Any suggestions just feel free to post, thank you!

 

[somebodyelse]

I would have thought a 'Pro' model would include XLR output for AES/EBU as used in pro audio, rather than I2S which only amateurs use, but that's product naming for you these days. I would hope the coax output would be transformer isolated in both models - something else that's more common in pro audio to break ground loops and other ground related noise issues like 'usb noise'. If they can do it in a £16 Fun Generation UA-202 cost is no excuse, and it gives a genuinely useful selling point over most of the alternatives. Fun Generation don't mention it, but the transformer can be seen on the board. Beyond that there's not much to say - a class compliant USB to digital adapter just has to do its job correctly.

 

[JamesYeomans]

Re the U2:
- The move from Micro USB to USB C was appreciated by me.

A "Pro" version with XLR AES/EBU output instead of the I2S would also be appreciated.

 

[NickArcade]

Do you have a projected released date for this new model of the U2?

 

[Matterhorn]

I bought the Douk U2pro. I am amazed at how the sound stage opened up when using it with my Musician Draco. I use a LPS and connect the U2pro via I2S to the Draco.
There are many people that have upgraded the oscillators/clocks in their U2pro. Could you comment on the possibility of upgraded clocks in the U2pro? Otherwise I have no complaints it works great.

 

[NickArcade]

Make it USB 3 and include HDMI eARC input/output