Friday, August 22, 2008

They are not coming back.....

As you all know, we have a 30 day money back guarantee. And, as you can imagine, there are some products that have higher return rates than others. Its inevitable. We may get returns on certain products(for a variety of reasons) , while others, never come back.

One that does not seem to want to make its way back here is the $99 Musiland LILO DSP Soundcard.

$99.00, which includes the LILO and software down load from our site, gives your lap top the closes thing it is going to see to a sound card. For your desk top, install the card via the USB port on the front panel - you do not have to rip into the guts of your PC.

On certain audiophile boards, they throw the LILO into the same boat as a USB DAC, of which it is and of which it is not. The hand shaking between windows (XP and Vista are supported, sorry , no Mac, *Highly Discriminatory *) is accomplished through the installation of DSP software. This DSP software gives one recording engineer control over the music. In addition to all this, there is an optical out on the LILO for conversion from USB to SPDIF. Don't have a USB DAC? Take the LILO, adjust the sound, and pipe it into your favorite DAC via the optical out. As a special bonus, the LILO will do 24/96 conversion, sweet. The Brigatta uses the LILO capabilities, but short changes the process, for higher rez, by using I2S, very sweet.

The master control on the LILO software is plum. Basic control includes "foobar" functionality and the DSP control is (star) treky. Control includes:
  • Bass, treble, loudness
  • Dynamic Bass
  • Sharp, medium and soft filters
  • Corner/ center frequencies
  • Amplitude adjust
  • an equalizer
So, go ahead, enjoy yourself.

How does it sound? I listened through mu AKG headphones. The amount of detail was actually stunning and comes close to my favorite Bada PH12. This is not just average listening from you lap top on the train ride home, this is, high end on the trade ride home (although, I recommend using some high end buds, as you will look quite dorky with AKG 701s on public transportation)

CDs ripped with EAC are enlightening, internet music or streaming audio, for some reason, breath taking.

All this for $99.00

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