Safety Instructions

INTRODUCTION ................................................................... 1
THE FRONT PANEL .............................................................. 3
THE REAR PANEL - DIGITAL MODEL ...................................... 5
THE REAR PANEL - DIGITAL AND ANALOG MODEL ............... 7
USING THE PCM96 SURROUND .......................................... 9
Powering Up the PCM96 Surround .............................. 9
The Preset Screen .......................................................... 9
Selecting Your Audio Source and Clock Source ............. 10
Loading a Preset ............................................................ 10
Changing Categories ..................................................... 10
System Presets and Machine Presets .............................. 11
The configuration icon .................................................. 12
Editing a Preset ............................................................. 13
Storing a Preset .............................................................. 14
Initializing/formatting a Compact Flash Card ............... 15
Creating a new System Preset ........................................ 15
DSP CONFIGURATIONS ........................................................ 16
Preset availability within the various surround
configurations ................................................................ 16
Signal distribution inside the algorithm ......................... 16
Single Stereo (Mono In) ................................................ 17
Single Stereo .................................................................. 17
Dual Stereo (Mono In) .................................................. 17
Dual Stereo ................................................................... 17
Cascade Stereo ............................................................... 18
Dual Mono ................................................................... 18
Quad Mono .................................................................. 18
Cascade Mono ............................................................... 18
Dual Mono + Single Stereo ........................................... 18
Cascade Mono to Stereo ................................................ 18
Single Two in Four Out ................................................. 18
Single Four In Four Out ............................................... 18
Single Two in Five Out .................................................. 19
Single Five In Five Out ................................................. 19
Single Six in Six out ...................................................... 19
THE PCM96 SURROUND PLUG-IN ......................................... 20
Installing the Plug-In software ....................................... 20
Minimum System Requirements ................................... 20
Using the Plug-In .......................................................... 20
NETWORKING ..................................................................... 24
Overview of TCP/IP Basics ........................................... 24
Connecting the Computer Directly to the PCM96
Surround ....................................................................... 25
Setup of a Simple Isolated Ethernet Network Using
DHCP ......................................................................... 25
Virtual Private Networks (VPN) ................................... 26
Network Considerations and Limitations ...................... 26
Network Troubleshooting .............................................. 26
SYSTEM MENU .................................................................... 28
Audio Setup .................................................................. 28