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Making Digital
Connections
The Nº360S 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, Nº360S,” 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 Nº360S 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 Nº360S 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 pa-
per. (You will rename the various inputs in the Nº360S 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 Nº360S’ 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.
3
Male RCA
(connect to source)
Male XLR
(connect to Nº360)
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