Behringer SRC2496 - Manual (Page 4)

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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. TECHNICAL BACKGROUND ................................. 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 .......................................... 13
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 .......................................................... 14
5.3.5 Connecting with an adapter ............................... 14
5.4 Headphones output ..................................................... 14
6. SPECIFICATIONS ................................................... 15
7. WARRANTY............................................................. 16