Audient Announces iD48 8-Channel USB-C Audio Interface

Audient announced the launch of a new 8 channel USB-C audio interface with 24 inputs and 32 outputs, which the company will be presenting at the 2025 NAMM Show. The iD48 rackmount unit is now the flagship of the Audient studio interface range and places the British studio brand on a higher level of the market for project and commercial studios. Its design allows an expansion with 16 external mic preamps, streaming 24 simultaneous outputs over USB at 24-bit/96kHz, control studio monitors and talkback, and easily insert external processors and effects.

France-based audio manufacturer AuviTran has adopted Merging Technologies’ ZMAN audio networking module into its brand-new AxC-AES67 interface card, part of its flagship Audio ToolBox Suite. Bringing low-latency and bridging capacities to high performance applications, the AxC-AES67 interface card is fully compatible with AES67 and Ravenna protocols, and supports industry standard SMPTE2110, ST2022-7 Seamless Protection Switching and NMOS IS-04 + IS-05.

DAD just announced a new Thunderbolt 3 audio interface for studios, location recording setups or touring rigs. The new AX Center is a dedicated Thunderbolt modular audio interface with dual microphone and instrument inputs, dual headphones and monitors outputs, built-in PRO|MON monitor control with speaker EQ, and two slots for DAD expansion cards. It comes with 256 channels via Thunderbolt, 256 Dante I/O channels, up to 192 MADI I/O channels and 16 ADAT channels, as well as onboard summing and processing.