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M-AUDIO Transit High Resolution Mobile Audio Upgrade | 
| Brand: M-Audio
List Price: $99.95
Buy New: $72.01
You Save: $27.94 (28%)
New (25) Used (1) from $59.00
Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 12049
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 7 x 2.3
nv: Model: Orchestral Brass
Part Number: 9910-40926-00
Product Type: Orchestral Brass Liberary
Includes: EXS24, HALion, Kontakt, MachFive and Reason formats
Designed For: Extreme playability and realism
Produced By: Sonic Implants
MPN: TRANSIT
Model: 9900-40904-00
UPC: 612391991302
EAN: 0612391991302
ASIN: B0000CDHP5
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Transfer pristine digital audio between your computer and other devices such as MiniDisc and DAT | | • | Digital output can deliver AC3 and DTS from your computer to an external surround processor or receiver | | • | Bus-powered design lets you play and record virtually anywhere your laptop can go | | • | 1/8 Stereo Analog / Optical Digital Input | | • | 1/8 Stereo Line / Headphone Output |
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Product Description
Small enough to fit in your pocket, the M-Audio Transit brings hi-resolution 24-bit / 96kHz recording and playback to any USB-compatible computer. TOSlink Optical Digital Output Includes 3.5mm Male to TOSlink Female Adapter PC Compatibility - Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, XP; Pentium III 500 MHz, 128MB RAM Mac Compatibility - OS 9.1+, OS 10.1+, G3 or G4 w/ native USB, 128MB RAM Dimensions - 0.9H x 2.2W x 3.6D
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| Customer Reviews: Read 17 more reviews...
 Doesn't work as advertised (for Mac users) August 18, 2005
Charles (Santa Cruz, CA USA)
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
Review relevant noly to Macintosh users:
1. Sound output from Transit cuts out frequently, unpredictably, and often irrecoverably. Imagine listening to music and then using the keyboard to adjust the volume and suddenly having the audio disappear. Imagine listening to iTunes and then deciding to switch to a streaming audio program through your browser or through RealPlayer and having no sound in the new application. This happens frequently with the Transit. And about half the time it cannot be corrected by plugging and unplugging the Transit: you have to log out and in or restart. Lovely.
2. Other USB audio I/O devices such as the Griffin iMic simply work without drivers on a Macintosh. The Transit is not visible to the system without its drivers installed, so you're stuck with whatever M-Audio wants to provide. This is probably necessary to provide digital output and some device configuration, but it's a real problem if the drivers are inadequate (as they are).
3. The M-Audio site lists the current driver (1.6.1) as compatible with the current operating system (10.4.2). This isn't true at all. The current driver is dysfunctional with the current operating system.
4. My iMic and my Logitech USB headphones are working fine on my computer, so there's nothing wrong with the hardware.
5. M-audio has yet to respond to my e-mail requesting help, and they don't provide a toll free number for tech support.
Avoid this paperweight and get something that works as advertised. They've had months to come up with a driver that works with the current operating system and have failed. Unfortunately they haven't bothered to be honest about that and are still selling these as Mac compatible (and as compatible with the current Mac OS).
 Best Solution August 19, 2004
H. Thomas (Schweiz)
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
Everyone who wants digital audio on his Macintosh is best served with this device. I tried a lot of solutions when I wrote an article about audio devices for DVD playback for Macworld Germany, and Transit is definitely the best of them, specially if someone wants to connect his Mac (PowerBook, iMac, everything with USB ports) with an amplifier that has optical digital input. I use transit now for month and so far had never problems on my Flatpanel iMac.
 Mac Mini users beware August 19, 2005
Pip (UK)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I've tried everything to get this waste of space running. It's being sent back today. It seems that the driver for 10.4.2 is not usable. You can try using the native Mac drivers by following these instructions, but they didn't work for me:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040514125451790
Tranist USB small device, big results February 6, 2005
F. Lust (Ohio)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The Transit USB helped me achieve the goal of getting digital pastrhough from my powerbook to reciever. The deivce does a great job of passing DTS and Dolby signals directly through the optical port. The tricky part is setting up the device, the manual is lacking in many areas. Also, rather than use the drivers that ship with the device download the newest one from M-audio. The driver that shipped with mine was over a year old, and did not fully support OS X 10.3.7. Also the manual fails to mention that the Transit USB device creates it own settings icon under OS X, rather than adjust the device through the "sound" or "audio MIDI" control panels, use the "transit" control panel. Overall the sound quality has been great, very crisp, no added static and the digital pass through has worked great. Just don't foget to change the Apple DVD player to "Digital output" from "system sound" to take advantage of the DTS and Dolby signals. Overall a great device to allow digital audio output from a Mac
 Terrific sound but not for novices February 12, 2005
Jake W. (New York, NY)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
It's small, requires no power cord, has no buttons, and has a 104dB s/n ratio and almost no harmonic distortion -- yes! The moment I installed this on my Dell Latitude D600, I could hear a marked improvement in bass clarity and overall imaging.
Now the drawbacks: The software is not so hot. You cannot adjust its output and there is no equalizer. Plus I had a huge driver issue and tech support had no idea how to solve it. I had to do three hours of serious technical detective work (Windows driver version numbers, service packs, system files, etc.) to fix it. (Turn out it was an issue was with XP's USB drivers... surprise!)
Furthermore, it cannot monitor its own line-in. Thus you cannot use the line-in jack to, say, play another audio source through your speakers.
Still, the simplicity of the device and its sound quality won me over. Recommended.
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