How it works in the path
Class-compliant USB audio means no driver install, which is the only thing that matters at noon on show day when a guest engineer hands you a MacBook. The device draws at most 3 watts and is bus-powered from the network side, so it won't add meaningfully to your power budget or require its own outlet. Two channels each direction is the real constraint — this is a point solution, not a multi-source hub. LatencyThe delay between sound entering and leaving a digital system. IEM rigs fight to keep the whole chain down to a few milliseconds. is consistent with the rest of your DanteThe most common audio-over-network standard: dozens of channels of uncompressed digital audio down one ordinary Ethernet cable between Dante boxes. network, so it integrates cleanly with whatever clock domain you're already running, provided your switch is managed and PTP is happy.
