Digital Patchbay blues

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I have been looking at digital patchbays to end the endless plugging and unplugging of all my coax spdif gear. M-Audio discontinued the Digipatch and the Zsys gear is WAY too expensive.

But I found the ST Audio SRC VI and this seem like it may be an excellent choice.

Any of you heard of this unit or know about this company or know this unit?
 
I have 5 SPDIF units and 2 computers which I would like to be able to route the SPDIFs to each other without any repatching. I am also interested in getting a master clock, and this ST Audio unit looks like it would go well with a Big Ben or a Lucid GenX as it has wordclock out and in.
 
cultureofgreed said:
I have 5 SPDIF units and 2 computers which I would like to be able to route the SPDIFs to each other without any repatching. I am also interested in getting a master clock, and this ST Audio unit looks like it would go well with a Big Ben or a Lucid GenX as it has wordclock out and in.
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I don't believe this is what you're looking for then... You select one of your six inputs, which is then sent to all three (optical, coax, xlr) outputs. This means that whatever is not selected as your input is out of service (unless you manually patch it to... you get the idea).
 
Two years ago, I ordered one from musicians friend.

After chatting with MF tech support for 30 min, we decided it had arrived broken.

I sent it back and they sent me another broken one,

which I sent back. Believe it or not the third replacement was...

broken.

I ended up with a refund, went to radioshack and got a video switching box for all my s/pdif switching needs (video also uses 75 ohm connections just like S/PDIF ) which cost me 35 as opposed to 800 bucks.

IMHO STAudio are a very doggy company with crap QC. One broken unit is OK, three is a joke.
 
Here's a response I sent on this subject on 12/17/05 ... the Friend-Chip works great and costs about $650.
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I looked around alot for one of these too. I ended up with a Friend-Chip DMX 12/12. Works great and handles 24 bit. Heres the specs.. Good Luck. Oh, and stay away from the Midiman or M-Audio digipatch. No software control or 24 bit. Theres no much out there ... trust me.

Friend-Chip - DMX 12/12 Digital Patchbay
12x12 (stereo pairs) Matrix Patch Bay/Distribution for Stereo SPDIF and 8-channel ADAT signals. Includes MAC and PC control software.
· 12 x 12 crosspoint matrix
· signal distribution
· 6 coaxial in, 6 coaxial out
· 6 optical in, 6 optical out
· optical <> coaxial conversion
· 6 x ADAT routing
· software controlled
· 50 memory locations for presets
The DMX 12 offers a 12 x 12 crosspoint switch matrix and signal distribution. Any sources can be distributed to several outputs, but one output can only be fed from one source.
Optical SP-DIF sources can be routed to coaxial SP-DIF destinations and vice versa. All optical receivers and transmitters can also handle the optical ADAT signal. ADAT format can be switched and distributed for other ADAT receivers, but not be converted to SP-DIF format.
The DMX 12 can be programed from the front pannel or be remotely controlled from PC or MAC software with MIDI sysex or MIDI program change commands.
· MATRIX: 12 x 12 crosspoint matrix
· COAXIAL: 6 x SP-DIF 0.5V +/- 20%
· OPTICAL: 6 x TOSLINK for SP-DIF or ADAT "lightpipe"
· RATES: up to 24 bit, 96 kHz
· PRESETS: 50 memory locations
· REMOTE: MIDI program changes
· MIDI: sysex. remote software

Regards,
Mountaineer
 
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