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Edirol UA-25 Description
The Edirol UA-25 USB Bus Powered Stereo Audio Interface is easy to set up. It's a powerful USB Audio/MIDI interface designed to offer premium sound quality, rugged durability, and complete portability to the computer-based audio engineer. Compact enough to travel anywhere you can take your computer. High-grade aluminum chassis withstands hard knocks in the field and shields against high-frequency interference.

USB powered but provides 48V phantom power for condenser mics. Outputs audio at +4dBu from the balanced 1/4" outputs. Realtime direct monitoring. You can turn direct monitoring on or off, adjust the relative volume of the input signal compared to the audio playing out from your computer, and even set the signal to monitor in mono. This lets you plug a mic into the left input and hear it in both headphones or hear any phasing issues between inputs.

Built-in mild analog compressor protects against clipping and gives a little more latitude in field recording situations. 24-bit/96kHz audio performance, MIDI I/O, S/PDIF optical I/O, and Neutrik XLR/TRS inputs with high-grade microphone preamps. Super-stable drivers. ASIO2.0, WDM, MME, and CoreAudio support for both Mac & PC.

Reroute outgoing audio signals back to the input without crossing into the analog domain so you can record streaming audio directly.

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Quality: 9
The UA-25 is built VERY well, with a rugged aluminum case, sturdy knobs, and well-adhered rubber feet protecting the bottom of the unit. The Neutrik Combo inputs are well supported, but some of the smaller jacks are susceptible to bending slightly into the unit. It brings fears of snapping silicon to mind every time I connect the USB or RCA line outs.

Even after all of the solid construction, though, I still managed to lose one of the channels (channel 2), and it will not pass signal to save anything. I've pulled it apart and checked connections, to no avail. The parts are quality, but I have to dock a little for mysteriously losing one of only 2 inputs.

As far as sound goes, the unit has given me nothing but quality recordings. The noise floor is extremely low, the recordings are top-notch, and I've had no problems with unwanted coloring of the sound.

The unit does a very good job, and is a solid little workhorse of an interface. The drivers work great, and I'm able to achieve very low latency (4ms - 8ms) with little slowdown.

I modified a case that I had lying around to fit the interface, and it travels everywhere with my laptop. Even for editing audio, the interface serves as a better soundcard than the crappy RealTek in the laptop.

Great little Interface!

Reliability: 9
I'm only docking for the mysteriously non-working channel. Otherwise, the unit proves nothing but reliable.


Overall Rating: 9
I would recommend this product to someone who moves around a lot, only needs 2 channels of input, wants a solid, well-build interface, or simply wishes to stay in the Roland/Edirol family for their designer studio. It's a great little interface, and I've had nothing but positive results.


9 out of 10 for slight hardware issues (that may have been user-generated) on a quality, inexpensive audio interface.