User manual

dCS 950 / 952 User Manual Manual for Software Version 6.2x
dCS Ltd 22
nd
May 2000
Manual part no: DOC0029526B1 Page 19 Document No: OS-MA-D0002-952.6B1
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Sixth field
D.xxxx Channel destination (alphanumeric), or ...
Cd CD source, or ...
Enc 2-channel encoder / decoder, or ...
dAt DAT machine, or ...
S---- Unknown source.
7-Seg -
Disables the main 7 segment LED display. When set to Off, the Sample Rate
display turns off 5 seconds after the last button press. A dot in the lower right
hand corner of the display remains lit to indicate that the display has been
deliberately blanked. The display springs back into life (temporarily) if the menu
is used subsequently. Error or warning messages are displayed regardless of
this setting. The Mode display is not affected.
Heat -
Displays the internal temperature of the unit. Press Set to toggle between
Fahrenheit and Celsius.
A-Cut -
Automatically mutes the analogue outputs if the selected AES/EBU data stream
is flagged as Non Audio. This gives useful protection and should normally be
set to On. Set to Off to disable Auto-Muting. To warn you of this, the Mute LED
will flash when the unit is not muted.
IMPORTANT! Auto-Muting must not be disabled unless absolutely necessary as this will
prevent the unit muting if data errors occur or a non-audio CD is played.
Monitoring such data can cause loudspeaker and hearing damage!
A-Sel -
When set to On, automatic input selection is active. The unit will detect the
inputs connected to an active source and select one in the priority order AES1,
AES2, SDIF-2, SPDIF1, SPDIF2, SPDIF3. If the selected input is disconnected
or turned off, the unit will select the active input with the highest priority. You can
select a different input by pressing the appropriate button.
If the “I-For” menu item (see page 22) is set to Auto, the unit will read the
multi-wire format from the message flags in the AES3 data streams, selecting
Dual AES as necessary (dCS 952 only). If the message flags are incorrectly set,
the unit may set the wrong multi-wire format.
If I-For is set to Single (US[1]) or Dual AES format (US[2]), the unit will ignore
the message flags and select the AES inputs accordingly.
Set A-Sel to Off to disable automatic input selection.
RS232 -
Displays - and allows access to – the unit’s RS-232 identity code (an address
between 0 and 99). This is used by the remote control software to send specific
messages to specific units. Use Up and Down to change this address if you are
operating several units in a multichannel set up.