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INTRODUCTION
This Manual
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Break in
Your AIR monitors must be “run in” before optimal performance is achieved. It is essential that the monitors are not run at full level until after at least 24 hours of moderate operation. Optimal performance is achieved after about one week of operation at moderate levels.
The Product Concept
The AIR monitor systems take a giant step forward in
The networking possibilities will fit nicely into today's applications and can be taken far into the future studio.
A brief overview of the new advantages with the concept:
•System integration and networking (total recall, central control)
•Flexibility/adjustment possibilities (to the room, personal liking etc.)
•Extreme precision. (Precise alignment of individual monitors at the factory)
•Improved audio quality (from intelligent algorithms and precision filters)
•Direct Digital Reference (Digital Input)
Both AIR 6 and AIR 15 are Pro Audio
Extreme Precision
The frequency response and timing of the woofer- and tweeter signals of the AIR systems is controlled to a level of precision only practically obtainable with DSP. Furthermore the sensitivity of each individual loudspeaker driver is measured in the line of production, and deviations are compensated in the DSP software to 0.1dB steps. Perfectly aligned monitors also give the so far unseen advantage of interchangeability. In the unlikely case of a monitor breakdown, a perfectly matching monitor can be added instantly.
As most productions do end up in a digital format these days the AIR series allow monitoring of the "pure" Digital signal. Simply feed the monitors directly with an AES/EBU signal.
Having said that, many studios today are still working with
analog signals for monitoring - therefore an Analog Input option is also provided.
The following section is an introduction to the concept of the AIR systems. Detailed parameter explanations, setup guides and calibration info are to be found in later sections of this manual.
The Master/Slave Concept
Two physically different units exist for each model. A Master unit able to:
-receive digital audio on AES connections
-receive analog audio (if an analog option card is installed)
-send and receive audio and control data via the proprietary TC LINK connection.
Master Monitor Rear
• To set a Master Monitor as System Controller the TC LINK button on the rear panel must be left out.
•One and only one of the Master units must be setup as the System Controller. This is done by leaving out the TC LINK button on the rear panel. (see above). Setting up a system is done from the System Controller monitor.
You set up, set tasks and calibrate all connected monitors in the entire system from the System Controller.
•A Slave unit is able to receive and distribute audio and control data via the proprietary TC LINK connection.
Slave Monitor Rear
Audio signal from your studio is input to the Master monitors only and the signal is distributed from here to the connected Slave units through a proprietary Networking protocol. It is worth noticing that a Master monitor acts exactly as a Slave monitor when its TC LINK button is set in “IN position.”
The networking capabilities, enables all monitors in a setup, no matter if it is Stereo or Surround, Digital or Analog to always be corresponding. This provides great possibilities in terms of general control of the entire system.
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