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By changing SETUP DIG-OUT FORMAT (EMPHASIS) from off to on, you can add emphasis flags to your
output audio. If you’ve never heard of “emphasis,” leave it off and skip the rest of this paragraph!
Emphasis is an outmoded “feature” of older A/D and D/A technology that filters the digital audio to make the best use of
available headroom. However, few devices use emphasis these days, so you probably want to leave it off unless you have good
reason to do otherwise. Changing the emphasis flag does NOTHING to the actual audio, it just turns the flag on and off (so, in
this sense, your Eclipse can misinform). Setting the emphasis to
thru simply mirrors the output flag so that it matches the input
flag.
Assuming that you’ve set (CS-TYPE) to Cns, you can select copy status
at SETUP DIG-OUT FORMAT (SCMS). Your choices are:
copy OK This will allow subsequent digital devices to make unlimited copies of the output audio.
You should leave it set to copy OK unless you feel justified in doing otherwise…
1 more This will allow only one subsequent digital device to use the output audio. After that, no
more digital copies are permitted.
no copy This will allow no subsequent digital devices to use the output audio. …a good way to pro-
tect your wares from flea-bitten pirate varmints!
Select SETUP DIG-OUT FORMAT (BITS) to choose the output word
length: 24, 20, or 16 bits.
ADAT Output or Two-Channel Optical Output?
The optical output can be made to send eight-channel digital audio in the
ADAT protocol (ADAT) or two-channel digital audio in the protocol cho-
sen above (S/PDIF).
Select between the two at SETUP DIG-OUT (OPTICAL). (You should not select ADAT for sampling rates
above 50kHz.)
If you select ADAT, proceed to SETUP DIG-OUT (ADAT-OUT). Repeat-
edly press ADAT-OUT to select each channel in turn and use the knob to
change the status of its output. Your choices are:
Thru The selected ADAT channel will carry the same signal that the corresponding ADAT input
carried.
Mute The selected ADAT channel will carry silence.
Ch 1 The selected ADAT channel will carry the Eclipse’s channel 1 output.
Ch 2 The selected ADAT channel will carry the Eclipse’s channel 2 output.
If you select ADAT for the optical output, the other digital outputs send
the format selected at
SETUP DIG-OUT FORMAT (CS-TYPE) as de-
scribed above.