This is the new 2009 "Fubar3" USB DAC + integrated Headphone Amplifier. Now with new color faceplates, Black and Silver and 1/4" (6 mm) headphone jack
The Fubar3 is a superb USB DAC + Integrated Headphone amplifier + RCA outputs (analog) to connect to your audio rig. You get HiFi music direct from your PC to connect to your home stereo, or you can use the built-in headphone ampifier to drive your headphone.
Plug-In and Smile !

Plug the USB cable of your Fubar3 in the USB port of your PC and it will grab the audio, still in digital format, from your system and bypass the soundcard. The Fubar3 external DAQ, will stream the audio in high-end quality to any amp or preamp from you existing audio system or to any (pre)amp in the amazing Firestone range. Now you can stream your complete music library in high quality.
Besides streaming to your audio system, you can also plug your headphones into the Fubar3 and experience a very high-end quality sound, coming from the build-in headphone amplifier.

Users can swap the opamps for adapting to their taste. The special designed power supply section provides a minimum interference, to provide silent audiophile quality.

Why should I need a Fubar3 DAC + Headphone Amp? :

Less noise, far better sound quality, frequency range and dynamics. That’s why !
Now you can deliver Hi Fidelity music direct to you home stereo, PLUS the fact that you have a headphone amplifier that is capable of driving your headphones the way is should be done.

Fubar3 is a so called external DAC system PLUS headphone amplifier. Basically you can see it as a Fubar2 + Cute Beyond, packed in 1 convenient package. The Abbreviation “DAC� stands for Digital to Analog Converter. Your computer sound card also has a DAC in stalled and that’s why you can plug in speaker and headphones on you PC, being analog devises. Unfortunately the most sound card electronics are cheap quality and packed dense on the printed circuit board of your soundcard. Also the sound card is located in the most electrical noisy environment possible, your pc cabinet, where EMC is raging around coming from the processor, power supply and various cooling fans that are present. These figures are not doing any good your sound quality. The real audiophiles change to expensive external DAC systems to get a HUGE improvement of sound quality. The Fubar3 is such a so called external DAC system, using the USB bus for digital transfer.

With the Fubar3, you will make a dramatic sound improvement, when compared to your sound card. Just plug the USB cable form the Fubar3 in your PC and the PC will automatically recognize an external DAC system, without any necessary software or drivers. This will work with Windows 98 and up, and with Apple MAC and Linux.
No… you will not have any problem when you use Vista, be sure of that !

The USB bidirectional protocol has error correction and buffering on both ends and makes sure the data on your disc is exactly the same as the Fubar is receiving from the PC. Since the USB interface is asynchronous, clocking issues with SPDIF and CD-players are gone, resulting in very low jitter.

The hype of using a PC as a so called music server, is getting more and more popular, because also the audiophiles do hate it to pick and place a CD and put in a player every time again. Storing Terra bytes of music in loss-less format on the hard drive is the solution and let you search and select the music you want to hear in a fraction of time and start playing by just pressing a button. Terra byte storage is getting affordable. USB or Ethernet hard drives are now available at low cost and freeware like Windows media player, Apple Itunes, Media Monkey and others, are making it a piece of cake to create a playback server.

People are trying to find ways to get Hifi quality out of their system. They want sound, that can be compared with their old so long beloved normal audio systems. Now they can approach, achieve or even go beyond that sound quality, using external DAC systems.

The Fubar3 is such a external DAC system, offering great value for money + and integrated headphone amplifier that can even drive the bigger audiophile can's like Sennheiser, AKG, Grado, Beierdynamic and others.
 

Amplifier Specifications:

 Class AB / DC amplifier, uses no coupling capacitors
 
 Extra low output resistance (Zo < 0.05 ohms),high current capacity 800mA per channel
 
 6Hz~300Khz ,-1dB at 32 ohms loading, very low noise -110dB (A)
 
 6Vrms external gain control switch
 
 8 - 600 Ohms (See headphone matching chart for additional information)
 
 Size: 11cm/4.3in(L) x 8cm/3.2in(W) x 5cm/2.0in(H)
 
 Weight: Fubar III only 350g / 12.3oz
 
 Weight: Total Package 980g / 34.5oz
 
DAC Specifications:
 
 USB DAC Chip: TI - PCM2702 DAC, 16 Bit 44.1 KHz / 48KHz sampling rates
 
 OpAmps NS - LM4562
 
 Output Voltage 6 Vrms
 
 Output Current 100 mA
 
 Output Impedence 10 Ohms
 
 Circuit Specific Independent regulators for digital and analog circuits, DC amp uses no coupling capacitors
 
 Frequency Response: 10Hz~25KHz ,-1dB at 600 ohms loading, low noise -99dB(A)
 
Scope of supply:

 FUBAR3 USB DAC / Headphone Amplifier
 
 Autoswitching Power Supply 100–240 VAC/ 50/60Hz
 
 USB Cable (2 meter)
 
 High Quality RCA interconnects 2 meters (1,9 meter)
 
 hex key (Imbus)

Features:

 Plug and Play, no drivers needed.
 
 Volume control internal switch for Series or Shunt (adjust to suit your taste)
 
 Head phone Op Amp exchangeable! You can tune the tone to your taste
 
 100 - 240VAC, 50/60 Hz external auto-switching power supply included
 
 External gain switch make it easy to match low or high impedance headphones
 
 Short circuit and thermal protection