An AC receptacle completes the back panel picture. Two methods are available to turn the power back on-there we go with the twos theme again-either by pressing the menu button and then turning the input selector, or, turning the power button to off, waiting a few seconds and turning it back on. Since I’m a card carrying tree hugger, I was glad to see a power save switch, which automatically makes the unit go into standby after 30 minutes of inactivity. There are two coaxial inputs, two optical inputs, and two sets of fixed outputs (RCA and XLR), but only one USB input. Teac seems to like offering everything in twos. Around back, there are input and output connections everywhere. No remote control is offered, so you have to go the old school route by getting off your duff to change settings. The black front panel is elegantly simple, fitted with the necessary items for proper operation: power on/off switch, input selector knob, standard ¼ inch headphone jack, menu button (used in conjunction with the input selector), menu/playback information display, and headphone volume knob. The rack handles look nice but are merely decorative and ornamental since they are way too small for my fingers to fit through the cutouts of the handles.
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While not nearly as small as the iFi-audio Micro and Nano devices I recently reviewed, any component of the Reference series should fit into most tight spaces. Like other components in the Reference Series, the UD-501 is housed in a much smaller enclosure than the traditional rack-mount size, measuring eleven and a half inches in length, nine inches in depth and three inches in height. My review unit is in black with aluminum side-panels, and appears to be sturdy and solidly built with heft in a compact size. One can get the UD-501 in any color one wishes, as long as it is either in silver or black. My colleague Jack Roberts is auditioning several other components in the Reference Series, including the UD-501, and will impart his thoughts after this review.Įach component in the Reference series is packed with some of the latest digital technology aimed at the modern day audio user and best of all, each is reasonably priced. It is a dual-monaural USB D/A converter with headphone amplifier. The UD-501 is part of Teac’s Reference Series.
I can now include the $849 Teac UD-501 to this group of high-value achievers. I have had the pleasure of auditioning and reviewing several good sounding digital-to-analog converters this year, ranging in price from a low of $189 ( iFi-audio Nano iDSD, iFi-audio Micro iDAC, $299, iFi-audio Micro iTube/Pre-amplifier, $299) to a high of $1,790 ( B.M.C.
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