The DL461 is a 3U 19” rack unit, which performs the stage-to-console link using a single Cat6 cable (under 100 metres) or fibre-optic link (up to 500 metres). In addition to audio and control connections to the ten DSP modules. It features ten fully dual redundant AES50 connections for local I/O, as well as BNC and AES3 word clock interfaces and Ethernet tunnel. Dual redundant DL461’s are supplied with each XL8 system.

• DL2 DL461s included in an XL8 live performance system
• Integrated open-architecture AES50 digital audio distribution
• Fully duplicated network for redundancy
• Up to 100 metres of dual redundant connectivity between hardware elements (copper); up to 500m using optical fibre
• Automatic integral delay management system - audio outputs time and phase coherent
• Flexible, expandable hardware system
• Ethernet TCP-IP & USB tunnelling for third parties
• 1,000 million bits per second data transfer