Lynx E44

f you’re involved in demanding professional broadcast or recording, the Lynx E44 is made for you. Built upon the legacy of the acclaimed LynxONE and LynxTWO cards, E series audio interfaces go further to deliver the highest A/D and D/A conversion performance ever in a PCI Express card – even eclipsing that of the Lynx Aurora. The E44 employs state-of-the-art design methodologies to achieve high performance levels. Components are painstakingly selected to provide vanishingly low noise and distortion. The compact circuit topologies are engineered to cancel external noise pickup. Capacitors with solid dielectrics are used for high reliability and long life.

Solid Lynx engineering

Like all Lynx products, the Lynx E44 is engineered to perfection. One example would be the PCB layout, which emphasizes exacting component placement and trace routing, in addition to extensive use of copper planes for shielding and power distribution. With the PCI Express bus, power is a particular challenge due to the lack of the negative supply rail required to power analog amplifier stages. To overcome this, the E series employs a unique design that generates extremely low-noise supply rails that are quite tolerant of badly designed computer power supplies. Another core technology pioneered for use in audio devices by Lynx is the use of field programmable gate arrays.

Lynx E44 Features at a Glance:

• PCIe audio interface with four analog I/O channels and four digital I/O channels
• Four channels A/D and D/A conversion
• Four channels of AES3 or S/PDIF I/O
• Extremely low-jitter SynchroLock sample clock generator
• Sample rates: 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192kHz
• Fixed or adjustable trim level on all analog I/O, relay controlled
• Automatic output muting on power on/off (de-thump)
• FPGA-based on-board hardware mixing
• V2 DMA Engine promotes extremely low-latency operation
• Drivers for Macintosh OS X, Windows 7 & 8. Thunderbolt compatible
• Lynx Mixer application
• RoHS compliant
• Designed and built in Costa Mesa, CAf