Terratec Aureon USB: Simple Is Beautiful

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With its original rounded format, the Aureon USB looks like none of its rivals. It looks stylish and business-like. And it takes up little room. One thing that may be considered inconvenient is that it has no controls on it: it's nice to be able to adjust volume, especially when using earphones, directly on the card itself. All of one side is taken up with Cinch sockets, with six output channels (5.1) and two line-ins.

On the small side opposite the (non-removable) USB cable are two 3.5mm jack sockets for the mike input and earphone output, plus an optical digital input and output. Two adaptors for TOSLINK connectors are included, so it is easy to hook up to any device with a standard optic fiber. There is a set of Cinch/Cinch cables; we would have preferred Cinch/jack because jack inputs are more common than Cinch on loudspeaker systems.


Terratec Aureon USB
Interface USB 1.1
Audio chip Sonix SN1116
Maximum playback 48 kHz
Digital-analog conversion 16 bits
MIDI / game port no
Power USB
Inputs
Card line, mic, 1 S/PDIF
Outputs
Card line, 6x cinch (5.1), 1x headphone on 3.5mm jack, 1x S/PDIF
DVD and Cinema
Standards 5.1
Configuration up to 5.1
DVD Audio no
3D Gaming Audio
Standards DS3D, EAX 1 and 2
Configuration 2 x 5.1
MIDI
Connections none
Software synthesizer Microsoft
Minimum System Requirements
Processor Pentium III or Athlon 600 MHz
Memory 128 MB
Interface USB 1.1
OS Windows 2000 / XP

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