Owner`s manual

Making Digital

Connections

The Nº360 incorporates RCA, BNC and XLR electrical connectors, and ST

and EIAJ optical connectors for digital audio signal input. The digital

output is the electrical aes/ebu standard via XLR connector. (See “Rear

panel, Nº360,” above.)

Unlike previous generations of digital audio processors, the perfor-

mance of which was highly dependent on the digital interface and the

digital interconnect, the technology of the Nº360 allows it to deliver

optimal performance despite the inherent limitations of interfaces such

as the

EIAJ standard (sometimes called “Toslink™”). As a consequence,

you can feel free to use whichever interconnection standard is conve-

nient, given the provisions of your various digital sources.

For electrical digital interconnection, we recommend Madrigal MDC

cable. MDC-1 is designed for 110Ω

AES/EBU interconnection (via XLR

connectors); MDC-2 is designed for 75Ω S/PDIF interconnection (via

either RCA or BNC connectors). Both cables are available in various

lengths from your Mark Levinson dealer.

Using appropriate cables, connect all your digital source components

to suitable inputs on the rear panel of the Nº360 processor. If you have

several such components, you might want to make a note of which

component is plugged into which input on a piece of scrap paper. (You

will rename the various inputs in the Nº360 shortly, making it easier to

remember which input goes with which transport once the installation

is complete.)

If you have several digital sources which have only S/PDIF (RCA or

BNC) outputs, it is possible to use an RCA-to-XLR cable for connec-

tion to one of the Nº360’s XLR-type digital inputs. For the best perfor-

mance in these circumstances, we recommend using a high-bandwidth

(300 MHz), three conductor, 110Ω cable such as Madrigal MDC-1

(available from your Mark Levinson dealer). You may also fashion one

according to the diagram below.

Male RCA

(connect to source)

Male XLR

(connect to Nº360)

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