Behringer SRC2496 FOREWORD, TABLE OF CONTENTS, 1. INTRODUCTION, 2. CONTROL ELEMENTS, 3. APPLICATIONS, 4.TECHNICALBACKGROUND, 5. INSTALLATION, 6. SPECIFICATIONS, 7. WARRANTY

ULTRAMATCH PRO SRC2496

FOREWORD

Dear Customer, welcome to the team of BEHRINGER users and thank you very much for expressing your confidence in us by

purchasing the SRC2496. Writing this foreword for you gives me great pleasure, because it represents the culmination of many months of hard work delivered by our engineering team to achieve a very ambitious goal: considerable improvement of an excellent piece of equipment.

The ULTRAMATCH SRC2000 has for quite a long time been a standard tool used by numerous studios. The task of designing our new ULTRAMATCH PRO SRC2496 certainly meant a great deal of responsibility which we assumed by focusing on you, the discerning user and musician. Meeting your expectations also meant a lot of work and night shifts. But it was fun, too. Developing a product usually brings a lot of people together, and what a great feeling it is when all who participated in such a project can be proud of what they’ve achieved.

It is our philosophy to share our enjoyment with you, because you are the most important member of the BEHRINGER team. With your highly competent suggestions for new products you’ve made a significant contribution to shaping our company and making it successful. In return, we guarantee you uncompromising quality as well as excellent technical and audio properties at an extremely reasonable price. All of this will enable you to give free rein to your creativity without being hampered by budget constraints.

We are often asked how we manage to produce such high-quality devices at such unbelievably low prices. The answer is quite simple: it’s you, our customers! Many satisfied customers mean large sales volumes enabling us to get better purchasing terms for components, etc. Isn’t it only fair to pass this benefit on to you? Because we know that your success is our success too!

I would like to thank all of you who have made the ULTRAMATCH PRO possible. You have all made your own personal contributions, from the developers to the many other employees at this company, and to you, the BEHRINGER user.

My friends, it’s been worth the effort!

Thank you very much,

Uli Behringer

	TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION .........................................................		5
1.1	The design concept ......................................................	5
1.2	Before you begin ..........................................................	5
2. CONTROL ELEMENTS ...............................................		5
2.1	Front panel of the ULTRAMATCH PRO SRC2496 .........	5
	2.1.1 Monitor and input sections ..................................	6
	2.1.2 Mode section .......................................................	6
	2.1.3 Output section .....................................................	6
2.2	Rear panel of the ULTRAMATCH PRO ..........................	7
3. APPLICATIONS ..........................................................		8
3.1 A/D and D/A conversion with the ULTRAMATCH PRO ..		8
	3.1.1 Converting analog to digital .................................	8
	3.1.2 Converting digital to analog .................................	9
	3.1.3 Parallel A/D and D/A conversion .........................	9
3.2	Sample rate conversion ................................................	10
	3.2.1 Typical studio application with DAT ..................	10
	3.2.2 Hard-disk recording ...........................................	10
	3.2.3 Master/slave problem solver .............................	10
	3.2.4 Bridging unformatted passages ........................	10
3.3	Removing copy protect information .............................	10
3.4	Noise reduction with emphasis ....................................	10
3.5	Line booster, signal refresher ......................................	11
3.6	Correcting incorrect sample rates ................................	11
3.7	Vari-speed application ..................................................	11
3.8	Format converter ..........................................................	11
3.9	Format interface ...........................................................	11
3.10 Patchbay/splitter .........................................................		11
4.TECHNICALBACKGROUND .....................................		11
4.1 A short digression into digital sample rate conversion		11
4.2 AES/EBU and S/PDIF standards ...................................		12
5. INSTALLATION .........................................................		12
5.1	General connection notes ............................................	12
5.2 Analog inputs and outputs ............................................		12
5.3 Digital inputs and outputs .............................................		13
	5.3.1 Balanced XLR connection .................................	13
	5.3.2 Unbalanced coaxial RCA connection ................	13
	5.3.3 Optical connection .............................................	13
	5.3.4 Wordclock ..........................................................	13
	5.3.5 Connecting with an adapter ..............................	14
5.4	Headphones output ......................................................	14
6. SPECIFICATIONS .....................................................		15
7. WARRANTY ..............................................................		16

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