This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Suggest audio component(s) for 5.1 monitoring?

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Re: [Avid-L2] Suggest audio component(s) for 5.1 monitoring?

What is your budget?

First you will need a video I/O to output 6 or more channels of PCM audio. At this point any Avid, AJA or Blackmagic will do.

You can go the consumer direction and use a consumer HDMI A/V receiver that can decode multi channel audio from HDMI. Models such as the Denon S700W can do up to 8. The advantage of consumer A/V receives is they often have built-in audio delay to maintain sync. The downside is they do not understand PsF.

For a consumer solution you can go with AJA/Blackmagic I/O, maybe SDI to HMDI converter, consumer A/V receiver and speakers.

For a more professional solution up to 7.2, you will need SDI de-embedder or AES DAC, then to a surround control unit like the SPL SMC 2380. A set of self powered speakers (Genelecs for example) will finish the set.

HTH

Dom Q. Silverio

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 1:34 PM, roberto@puregrain.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

While the L discussing is swinging toward audio... I received a 5.1 mix that I've back into our final edit. What central audio output component(s) should I consider to turn my stereo playback system into surround?

I have: an iMac (i7, late 2013), OS X 10.8.5, MC 7.03
5 Dynaudio Acousitcs speakers (powered, XLR input)
1 BagEnd InfraSub 18 Pro (5 XLR I/O)
Grace m903 DAC - USB in from iMac, stereo out, key feature: digital volume level display

My guess is I may need something like a MOTU HD Express, which is priced right, but my iMac doesn't have an PCIe connection that it looks to require.

The MOTU HDX-SDI has Thunderbolt, and 8 channels of XLR output, and other nice features that I don't necessarily need, but I do like having the ability to ingest SD... I have some old tapes I need to transcode.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Alternatives?