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OVERVIEW
The Glensound DARK1616 is an analogue to digital and digital to analogue
converter designed to connect AES3 and line level analogue audio circuits to a
Dante audio network.
Dante network audio is a common protocol for distributing high quality linear audio
over standard IP networks and it is widely used by many audio equipment
manufacturers. The Glensound Dark1616 Dante audio interface will be compatible
with any other manufacturers Dante audio interface. Further details of Dante network
audio can be found at www.audinate.com
Being designed for live on-air broadcast applications the Glensound Dark1616 has
been designed with multiple redundancy capabilities. It has 2 mains power sources
and it also has fully redundant network connections for both Copper & Fibre circuits.
The Dark1616 provides 8 balanced AES3 inputs and 8 balanced AES3 outputs to
the Dante network and 16 analogue line level (0dB) inputs to the Dante network and
16 analogue line level (0dB) outputs from the Dante network on rear panel D25
connectors wired to AES59 (also known as the Tascam standard).
The analogue and AES3 outputs are both always used and the same audio signal
from the Dante newtork that is presented on one channels AES3 output will appear
as an analogue audio signal on the equivalent analogue output.
For each channel only 1 audio input signal can be sent to the Dante network, the
AES3 input has priority over the analogue. Therefore if there is both an analogue
and AES3 input signal for one channel only the AES3 will be sent to the Dante
network.
As per our other Dante equipment 0dBu = -18dBFs
