Edirol has announced that its FA-101 10×10 FireWire Audio interface is now shipping. With direct support for Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) using Apple’s FireWire Core Audio Driver 1.0.8, the FA-101 (US$695) is a “powerful, affordable FireWire Audio interface that offers low latency, portability and stability on the Mac platform.” The FA-101 is a single half-rack 10×10, 24-bit/96kHz audio interface drawing power directly from a 6-pin FireWire port. The unit is capable of 6 in, 6 out at 24-bit/192kHz. It also offers 8×8 analog I/O with two phantom mic preamps, Stereo Optical S/P DIF I/O, MIDI I/O, and 1/4″ headphone output with built in direct through mixing capabilities for low latency monitoring.