[baylonjayParticipant]

I say YES – it is worth it to go with the DX168, etc to keep everything at 24/96. The whole reason why I bought the SQ6 is I do an even mix of just Live and live recording, along with studio tracking and mixing. I wanted one system – that ran 24/96 at the core, and would support Dante at that rate (still waiting for that SQ dante card, I am in line a sweetwater to get it in 2 weeks, so we’ll see). I had been waiting for someone (thanks A&H!) to come out with a reasonably priced (nothing yet close to it… though Id imagine the others, and you know who they are, are close to having 24/96 competition to SQ) FULL FEATURED 24/96 board. The Slink is great to use with DX-168 (which is an excellent 24/96 stage box) for getting all the cables close to the center of action, and the dante is great for attaching PM, DAW, and other systems at 24/96 – I use the DAL PM mix-16 system with dante, and also have rednet D/A, and other Dante connected stuff for doing the studio recording. I only wish that there could be 2x I/O ports in the SQ6 – so I could run another WAVEs soundgrid card in it. (there is a Dante to soundgrid bridge I can use, and may look into that). I love 24/96 and Dante – since we are close to arriving at omnipotent standard (cheap and evolved enough that even inexpensive stuff can support it direct) that is as good as audio should ever need (not interested in that debate anymore!) for live and recording, and with Dante getting omnipotent as well…. the world of audio has all it needs to provide full 24/96 rouging, network audio processing and mixing that can be a standard for a LONG time – all over a cat5! What is not to absolutely love?!?! 🙂

[baylonjayParticipant]

yes you can though I have yet to try it since I cannot yet get an SQ6 dante card… I plan on trying this using the Aviom D800 Dante hub box to connect to aviom PM boxes… this way I can stay with native 96K rate that I need to connect with my other dante net stuff at 96k that is also going to mixer (like rednet and power amp stuff) I use onboard slink for 96K with dx168 stage now. Using Aviom D800 with Dante is pricey but it allows me to run the PM on stage systems at 96K to the D800 and then internally the D800 does down sampling to the individual boxes. I also love that the D800 can also use dante to grab the musicians custom mix back from all the stage PM boxes – so that I can mount all my in ear radio trannies in a rack at side of stage and feed those dante net mixes into them – it makes for much less cables and clutter on stage. I have seen this done with dante before with roland MC setups… those roland wer $15K and done even do as much as this less than $4k SQ series!

[baylonjayParticipant]

absolutely – I really hate all the bit rate, verses sample depth, versus bit depth, versus sampling rate, versus sampling depth – these terms are all thrown around with (no offense at all intended) – most non engineers / techs (and many quote engineers and techs) having no clue overall which is which, and what each actually means. For the record with PCM formats there is bit depth per sample, and sample rate per each second (for example 24bit samples at 96,000 samples per second or simply 24/96). All the other terms are vague / ambiguous and or wrong.

So my big question for the XCVI ‘deep’ cores that are in the SQ5/6/7 XCVI FPGAs – do those do the internal DSP / mixing, EQ, FX, etc – with the same 96bit math accumulation precision as the dLive XCVI FPGA cores?

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