dCS 904 User Manual

Manual for Software Version 1.5x and 1.36

dCS Ltd

June 2000

 

 

Figures

Figure 1– Rear Panel..........................................................................................

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Figure 2 – Front Panel ........................................................................................

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Figure 3 – Menu Sequence ................................................................................

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Figure 4 – DSD output configuration ..................................................................

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Figure 5 – Syncing a dCS 904 to a Master Clock ................................................

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Figure 6 – Storing 2 channel DSD on an 8 track 16 bit 44.1 kS/s PCM

 

recorder..........................................................................................

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Figure 7 – Six channel set up without a Master Clock........................................

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Figure 8 – Six channel DSD recording on a 24 track 16/44.1 kS/s recorder......

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Figure 9 – Multi-unit Remote Daisy Chain ..........................................................

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Figure 10 – 8 Channel P3D DSD Set Up............................................................

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Figure 11 – DSD, showing DSD full scale ..........................................................

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Figure 12 – DSD Output, Filter Responses (Spot Q Noise) ...............................

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Figure 13 – DSD output, Filter responses (Integrated Q Noise).........................

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Figure 14 – DSD output, Filter responses (F weighted Spot Q Noise)...............

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Figure 15 – DSD output, with analogue and Q spot noise..................................

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Figure 16 – Word Clock and AES3 outputs, 96 kS/s..........................................

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Figure 17 – Word Clock and AES3 outputs, 44.1 kS/s.......................................

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Figure 18 – Word Clock in to Word Clock out, 96 kS/s ......................................

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Figure 19 – Word Clock in to Word Clock out, 44.1 kS/s ...................................

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Figure 20 – AES3 in to AES3 out, 96 kS/s .........................................................

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Figure 21 – AES3 in to AES3 out, 44.1 kS/s ......................................................

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Figure 22 – Word Clock in to AES3 out, 96 kS/s................................................

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Figure 23 – Word Clock in to AES3 out, 44.1 kS/s.............................................

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Figure 24 – 1st Order Noise Shapers implemented on dCS 904..........................

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Figure 25 – 3rd Order Noise Shapers implemented on dCS 904 .........................

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Figure 26 – 9th Order Noise Shapers implemented on dCS 904 .........................

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Figure 27 – AES3 format at 48 kS/s over 16 metres..........................................

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Figure 28 – AES3 format at 48 kS/s over 94 metres..........................................

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Figure 29 – AES3 format at 96 kS/s over 16 metres..........................................

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Figure 30 – AES3 format at 96 kS/s over 94 metres..........................................

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Figure 31 – SDIF-2 PCM format at 96 kS/s........................................................

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Figure 32 – SDIF-2 PCM format at 44.1 kS/s.....................................................

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Figure 33 – DSD using SDIF-2 electrical format ................................................

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Figure 34 – Temperature rise above ambient for a unit in a stack of 3 with

 

poor ventilation...............................................................................

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Figure 35 – Noise Shaping and Dither Spectra ..................................................

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Figure 36 – Truncation Only Spectra..................................................................

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Figure 37 – Changing Mains Fuse......................................................................

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