DCS Vivaldi DAC - Advanced Options; Customising the Input Configuration

dCS Vivaldi DAC User Manual Software Issue 2.0x
November 2016
Vivaldi DAC Manual v2_0x Page 20 English version
Advanced options
Customising the input configuration
The Vivaldi DAC’s inputs can be renamed to suit your particular system using a computer running a
terminal emulator program. The Vivaldi Upsampler has the same feature. The procedure using a
Windows PC with TeraTerm is described here, but other programs such as PuTTY or ZTerm can be
used. If you have difficulty with this, please ask your Dealer for help.
• Power up the DAC and a Windows PC.
• If necessary, download Tera Term from http://en.sourceforge.jp/projects/ttssh2/releases/ and install
it on your PC. (If the link is broken, please search for the latest version of Tera Term online.)
Set the DAC’s Settings > RS232 menu page to the Text option.
• Use a USB-to-RS232 adapter cable to connect the
DAC’s Test port to one of the PC’s USB ports.
• Run ttermpro.exe.
• Click the Serial button – Tera Term will
automatically select the port connected to the DAC.
Click OK.
• Click Setup > Serial Port, set the Baud rate to
4800 and click OK.
• In the terminal window, type the command: NAME n = newname where:
- n is the number corresponding to the standard input name in the list below and
AES1
0
AES2
1
AES1+2
2
AES3
3
AES4
4
AES3+4
5
SPDIF1
6
SPDIF2
7
SPDIF3
8
Toslink
9
SDIF-2
10
USB
11
- newname is the personalised name you want to use for that input, such as CD-SACD, TV or
COMPUTER. It can be up to 8 characters long, consisting of:
capital letters A-Z, numbers 0-9 or + - / = . : ? ! @ &
• Press Enter.
For example:
- to rename the AES1+2 input to CD-SACD, type: NAME 2 = CD-SACD and press enter.
- to rename the USB input to COMPUTER, type: NAME 11 = COMPUTER and press enter.
Later on, if you want to revert to the standard input names (AES1, SPDIF2, etc.), select the
Configuration > Reset Input Names menu page.
Your customised input names will be permanently deleted.