AudioQuest Beetle - Specifications; Whats Included; Supported Operating Systems

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Beetle – Flight Manual
Optical–Bluetooth–USB DAC
In designing Beetle, our goal was to create a product that would sensibly
and intelligently address our customers’ various connectivity needs—
both wired and wireless—while remaining true to our quest for the
best possible sound. It wouldn’t be enough to merely oer inputs, such
as Bluetooth, USB, and Optical. We wanted to investigate and implement
the best possible methods of optimizing each input, independent of
one another. To that end, Beetle provides the following:
¡ Optical: ESS’s patented Time Domain Jitter Eliminator® signicantly
reduces jitter over Optical, raising both time-domain accuracy and
signal-to-noise ratio to state-of-the-art levels.
¡ Asynchronous Bluetooth: Asynchronous data transfer preventively
ensures the lowest possible level of jitter over Bluetooth. In this
mode, Beetle is in total control of the incoming datastream.
¡ Asynchronous USB: Like our award-winning DragonFly USB DAC
+ headphone amplifier, Beetle implements Streamlength®
Asynchronous USB transfer code—the most sophisticated software
solution of its kind currently available.
In addition to the great care and extraordinary engineering applied
to Beetle’s inputs, AudioQuest has spent the better part of three
years co-developing the most advanced microcontroller solutions
currently available. Beetle is the rst AudioQuest product to be built
on the extremely ecient, ultra-low-noise Microchip® microcontroller
platform.
Specications
Maximum Output: 1.35 volt
Bluetooth Version: 4.0 A2DP 2.6 (software upgradable via Desktop
Device Manager)
Volume Control
¡ USB and Bluetooth: 64-bit (Bit-Perfect Digital) Volume Control
¡ Optical: Unity Gain
Sample Rates
¡ Bluetooth: Up to 48kHz @ 384kbps (blue LED when paired)
¡ Optical: 32kHz–96kHz; 16 bit–24 bit (red LED)
¡ USB: 44.1kHz (green LED); 48kHz (blue LED); 88.2kHz (amber LED);
96kHz (magenta LED). 16 bit–24 bit.
What’s Included?
In the box, you will nd the following:
¡ Beetle Optical–Bluetooth–USB digital-to-analog converter
¡ Regulated Analog-Linear Power Supply
¡ Flight Manual
Supported Operating Systems
¡ Apple OS X®
¡ Apple iOS®
¡ Microsoft Windows® (7, 8.1, 10)
¡ Android™