Sharp presents 20.1" LCD monitor with 16ms response time

Creative Professional E-MU 1820: studio-quality digital audio system

Sony sells CLIE PEG-TJ27 with digital camera for $200

IBM PC Core System: your personal pocket terminal

NVIDIA unveils Quadro FX Go1000, mobile workstation graphics

Photo of the day: ASUS T2-P barebone in our lab

Sharp presents 20.1" LCD monitor with 16ms response time

Sharp presented two new LCD monitors, 20.1" LL-T2015 and 19" LL-191A, both with response time of 16ms. Specs are provided in the table below

Creative Professional E-MU 1820: studio-quality digital audio system

Creative together with E-MU Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of Creative Technology Ltd., announced its new brand, Creative Professional, for professional digital audio systems intended for musicians, recordists, and sound producers. The first product introduced under this brand is a studio-quality digital audio system, Creative Professional E-MU 1820, that delivers 24-bit/192kHz converters, hardware-accelerated effects and mixing, and compatibility with PC audio/sequencer software. The solution is bundled with ASIO 2.0, WDM, DirectSound drivers for Windows 2000/XP.

Creative Professional E-MU 1820 features E-MU E-DSP 32-bit Multi-effects Processor that offers over 20 hardware accelerated effects (over 500 presets) with no CPU overhead. Besides, the plug-in architecture allows adding new effects as needed.

Creative Professional E-MU 1820 features ADAT, S/PDIF and FireWire® interfaces, as well as connectivity to a family of internal and external I/O and sync options. The system includes an external half-rack module with a number of interfaces from 1/4" balanced I/O to specific connectors, including turntable input with hardware RIAA preamp, dedicated speaker output and two studio-quality TFPro preamps that have Neutrik connectors and can work with mics, line and Hi-Z signals.

There´s also a sync signal card option supporting Word Clock In/Out, SMPTE In/Out, MTC Out (MIDI Time Code).

E-MU 1010 PCI card specs:

• ADAT In and Out (192kHz compatible) — switchable to optical S/PDIF
• Coaxial S/PDIF In and Out
• FireWire Port
• EDI Connector to E-MU AudioDock M

E-MU AudioDock M specs:

• Front panel:
  • Two premium TFPro™ Mic Preamps with Neutrik® Connectors, 48V Phantom Power and 40dB of Input Gain control
  • Stereo Headphone Output
  • Optical S/PDIF Output
  • MIDI In/Out 1
• Back panel:
  • Six balanced 1/4" Analog Inputs (24-bit/192kHz)
  • Eight balanced 1/4" Analog Outputs (24-bit/192kHz)
  • Stereo Turntable Input with RIAA Preamp and Ground
  • 4 Stereo 1/8" Speaker Outputs (configurable from stereo to 7.1)
  • MIDI In/Out 2
  • EDI Connector to E-MU 1010 PCI Card (no external power required)

Brief digital audio system specs:

• General:
  • Sample Rates: 44.1, 48, 96, 192kHz from internal crystal or externally supplied clock (no sample rate conversion)
  • Bit Depth: 16 or 24 bits
  • PCI Bus-Mastering DMA subsystem reduces CPU usage
  • Zero-latency direct hardware monitoring w/effects
• Analog Line Inputs (6)
  • Type: servo-balanced, DC-coupled, low-noise input circuitry
  • Level (software selectable):
    • Professional: +4dBu nominal, 20dBu maximum (balanced)
    • Consumer: —10dBV nominal, 6dBV maximum (unbalanced)
  • Frequency Response: +0.0/-0.2dB, 20Hz — 20kHz
  • THD+N (1kHz at —1dBFS): —102dB (.0008%)
  • SNR (A-weighted): 111dB
  • Dynamic Range (1kHz, A-weighted): 112dB
  • Stereo Crosstalk (1kHz at —1dBFS): < —115dB
  • Common-Mode Rejection (60Hz): > 40dB
• Analog Line Outputs (8)
  • Type: balanced, low-noise, 3-pole low-pass differential filter
  • Level (software selectable):
    • Professional: +4dBu nominal, 20dBu maximum (balanced)
    • Consumer: —10dBV nominal, 6dBV maximum (unbalanced)
  • Frequency Response: +0.0/-0.8dB, 20Hz — 20kHz
  • THD+N (1kHz signal at —1dBFS): —98dB (.0013%)
  • SNR (A-weighted): 112dB
  • Dynamic Range (1kHz, A-weighted): 112dB
  • Stereo Crosstalk (1kHz at —1dBFS): < —115dB
• Combo Microphone Preamplifier/Line Inputs (2)
  • Type: TFPro™ combination microphone preamp and line input
  • Frequency Response: +0.8/-0.1dB, 20Hz — 20kHz
  • Stereo Crosstalk (1kHz min gain, —1dBFS): < —120dB
  • Line Input:
    • Gain Range: —12 to +28dB
    • Max Level: +17dBV (19.2dBu)
    • THD+N (1kHz at —1dBFS, min gain): —94dB (.002%)
    • Dynamic Range (A-weighted, 1kHz min gain): 100dB
    • SNR (A-weighted, min gain): 100dB
    • Input Impedance: 10K ohm
    • Common-mode Rejection Ratio (60Hz): > 40dB
  • Microphone Preamplifier
    • Gain Range: +10 to +50dB
    • Max Level: —12dBV (-9.8dBu)
    • THD+N (1kHz at —1dBFS, min gain): —95dB (.0018%)
    • SNR (A-weighted, min gain): 100dB
    • Input Impedance: 330 ohms
    • Common-mode Rejection Ratio (60Hz): > 80dB
• Headphones (stereo)
  • Type: linear power amplifier
  • Frequency Response: +0.0/-0.35dB, 20Hz — 20kHz
  • THD+N (1kHz, max gain)
    • 33 ohm load: —70dB (0.032%)
    • 600 ohm load: —85dB (0.006%)
  • SNR (A-weighted): 112dB
  • Dynamic Range (A-weighted): 112dB
  • Stereo Crosstalk (1kHz at —1dBFS, 600 ohm load): < —100dB
  • Maximum Output Power: 500mW
  • Output impedance: 22 ohms
  • Gain Range: 85dB
• Phono Input (stereo)
  • Type: RIAA equalized phono input
  • Frequency Response: +/-0.5dB, 50Hz — 20kHz
  • THD+N (1kHz, 10mV RMS unbal input): —76dB (.015%)
  • SNR (10mV RMS unbal input, A-weighted): 90dB
  • Stereo Crosstalk (1kHz at —1dBFS): < —80dB
  • Maximum level:
    • Professional: 80mV RMS
    • Consumer: 20mV RMS
  • Input capacitance: 220 pF
  • Input impedance: 47K ohm
• Digital I/O
  • S/PDIF:
    • 2 in/2 out coaxial (transformer coupled)
    • 2 in/3 out optical (software switched with ADAT)
    • AES/EBU or S/PDIF format, switchable under software control
  • ADAT:
    • 8 channels, 24-bit @ 44.1/48kHz
    • 4 channels, 24-bit @ 96kHz (S-MUX compatible)
    • 2 channels, 24-bit @ 192kHz
  • Firewire:
    • 400 Mbps 1394a port (6-pin)
    • Compatible with DV cameras, storage peripherals, etc.
  • MIDI
    • 2 in, 2 out

Creative Professional E-MU 1820 is also shipped with PatchMix DSP mixer, effects, and sutdio software, including full versions of Steinberg Cubase VST 32 v5.1, and Wavelab Lite V 2.5. The estimated price of Creative Professional E-MU 1820 is $373 (w/o taxes).

Sony sells CLIE PEG-TJ27 with digital camera for $200

Today Sony launched sales in Europe and North America of its CLIE PEG-TH55, PEG-TJ37, and PEG-TJ27. While we already described the first two early in February, so let me briefly remind you their features.

CLIE PEG-TH55 and PEG-TJ37 are designed for the upper and middle price niches. They feature 320x480 and 320x320 LCDs, 123MHz processors and 32MB RAM. CLIE PEG-TH55 and PEG-TJ37 will be $400 and $300, respectively.

All models have digital cameras (310,000 pixels or 640x480). PEG-TJ27 differs from its elder brothers by lacking 802.11b (Wi-Fi) and hardware MP3 player. PEG-TJ27 has 320x320 LCD and some faster 200MHz processor. PEG-TJ27 will cost $200 and over and, according to observers, will compete with palmOne Tungsten E and Zire 71.

IBM PC Core System: your personal pocket terminal

Today IBM Japan launched shipments of a new miniature PC weighing just 300 g.

Named PC Core System, the novetlty is sized just 160x82x22mm and bases on 1GHz Transmeta Crusoe TM5800 processor. It has 256MB RAM (up to 512MB), 20GB 2.5" HDD (up to 40GB), operates under Windows 98/2000/XP. If needed, one can connect to this little one an additional display, mouse, keyboard, or an Internet access port.

It´s obvious that the novelty to some extent resembles Antelope Technologies´s PC design introduced 1.5 year ago. Anyway, today it´s not that important as the final product is offered under the IBM brand.

IBM PC Core System retail price is unknown at the moment, but in over 1,000-unit quantities it will cost below ¥200,000 ($1850).

NVIDIA unveils Quadro FX Go1000, mobile workstation graphics

Today NVIDIA unveiled its new mobile workstation GPU, Quadro FX Go1000.

NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1000 is a 0.13µm 128-bit core supporting 12-bit pixel precision, up to 128MB DDR, NVIDIA PowerMizer 4.0. The GPU also supports pro applications like SolidWorks 2004, Unigraphics, Pro Engineer, Discreet 3ds, in which it´s called to boost the performance by 50% compared to Quadro FX Go700.

NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1000 is backward compatible with the entire family and operates with NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture. The new GPU is already shipping in Dell Precision M60 workstations.

Photo of the day: ASUS T2-P barebone in our lab

We are currently testing ASUS T2-P barebone announced in mid-January 2004. There are two models, T2-P and T2-R. Besides, there are also two T2-P models, Commercial Deluxe and Consumer Deluxe. T2-P T2-R differ by various motherboard chipsets, T2-P basing on Intel 865G, while T2-R — on ATI RS300. Besides, T2-R doesn´t have Audio DJ, Audio CD (and LCD display) on its front panel. T2-P Commercial Deluxe and T2-P Consumer Deluxe have expansion board, while the just T2-P doesn´t. T2-P Commercial Deluxe differs from T2-P Consumer Deluxe by expansion board circuitry (Commercial Deluxe has Gigabit Ethernet, while Consumer Deluxe has TV tuner). Other features are identical: Wireless 802.11b WiFi, IEEE1394.

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