Evergreen's DN-SCM81 7.1 USB audio adaptor

by Matt Burns, posted Jul 29th 2006 at 2:25AM

Evergreen is back at their game of low price USB oddities again, and this time around they have produced the DN-SCM81, an inexpensive 7.1 surround USB audio device. This little guy may not have a fancy casing or even a clever name, but it sure gets the job done with its extensive array of inputs and outputs. They loaded it up with one line level, one optical and two microphone inputs, along with one headphone, one optical and 5.1 outputs. We have seen devices like this before, but none have ever reached the rock bottom cost of $25 -- a price for which your surround sound audio will surely suffer. Then again, with a box this cheap you really have no excuse not to enjoy 7.1 off of your laptop into that high-priced audio system you just had to have.

[Via Engadget Japan]

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Peripherals

Tags: audio, evergreen, spdif, usb

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Gilbert J. Garcia @ Jul 29th 2006 2:51AM

you said one optical twice

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Erik @ Jul 29th 2006 3:34AM

that is because one is input, one is output, a total of two optical connections

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Ron from Ohio @ Jul 29th 2006 3:34AM

yeah, one in and one out.

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Tony Bernardo @ Jul 29th 2006 4:15AM

Audio won't suffer just becuase it's cheap. If you use optical out then the DAC in you amp will do all the work.

I'm getting one of these :-D

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JunioR @ Jul 29th 2006 7:22AM

Anybody found a retail website selling these boxes yet? Using Google and the model type given in the above article I can't seem to find any.

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Jason @ Jul 29th 2006 2:04PM

Will it have OS X drivers? I need good inputs for my Mini.

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John Doe @ Jul 29th 2006 3:57PM

Red alert claxons are going off in my head saying

"WARNING: TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE. WARNING: TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE."

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Alex @ Jul 30th 2006 1:21PM

For those who want to know, here's the link:

http://www.donya.jp/everg/7.1/4547479502698/

It only supports Win2k/XP, as you can see in the specs.

If you only want optical in/out, is there an even cheaper option out there?

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Andy Gratton @ Jul 31st 2006 9:25AM

Ebuyer in the UK sell these for £16...

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/106540

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rektide @ Aug 1st 2006 11:48PM

i picked up a fistful of these at geeks.com for $19 a pop a while back. they're cheap, but they do the job. linux support seems acceptable, but i havent jonesed with the optical.

different brand name, same package. mine were no names.

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Dave @ Feb 13th 2008 8:52AM

Works as an 8 channel device on mac but cant seem to get it to do digital passthrough

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