Community DSPEC226AN User Manual

ESIGN - PROTECT - ENHANCE - CONTROL

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A New Way of Geng There

dSPEC is different...and therein lies its power. While other DSP products

require hours, even days, to optimize crossover slopes, adjust
protective limiters, correct driver offset, and set a slew of other
parameters for each loudspeaker in your installation, dSPEC takes
a whole different approach.

With dSPEC you simply select from a menu of Community Loudspeakers
and dSPEC does the rest. We’ve provided a full suite of opmized DSP
sengs for each model of Community loudspeakers in the library that
we supply with the included Resyn™ soware program.

Opmized DSP means opmal performance. And opmal performance
means sasfied customers (it also means spending a lot less me on
the jobsite).

Equipped with a high speed SHARC DSP and a Xilinx Spartan FPGA,
dSPEC gives you sonic quality at its very best—coupled with the
processing power to get the job done right. Add in efficient operaon
and a reasonable price tag and you’ll know why we say, “You’ll Love
Where it Takes You.”

Consistency

Technology that Doesn't Trip on Itself

A lot of raw technology is available in pro audio, but oen is very
difficult to harness. That’s where dSPEC comes in. Our Resyn soware
guides you through an Engineered Workflow to configure your system

- whether it’s a single dSPEC in a House of Worship with only a few
loudspeakers - or many dSPEC’s driving hundreds of loudspeakers in a
large stadium.

How Does It Work?

It starts with design System (de•sign sys’tem: to skillfully plan an

ordered assemblage). You select the Community loudspeakers in

your installation from the design System screen, and then label
your Inputs and Outputs (MAIN L, MAIN R, UNDERBALCONY
SECTION 33, etc.). Resyn soware intelligently introduces lo-pass and
hi-pass filters, along with factory opmized equalizaon that flaens
each loudspeaker’s frequency response. If a loudspeaker is
bi-amplified or tri-amplified, Resyn provides optimal crossover
points and assigns LF, MF, & HF Outputs as needed. Here’s what a
design System screen looks like. It could hardly be more simple:

It’s no secret that loudspeakers are designed for many diverse
applicaons and can sound quite different from one another. There’s
long throw, medium throw, and underbalcony fill, to name a few. But
who wants the sound quality of their project to differ from one area of
the venue to any other?

To solve this basic problem, dSPEC employs proprietary CONEQ™
CONvoluon EQualizaon. Based on Acousc Power Frequency
Response, instead of the SPL measurements used in all other correcve
systems, a large Community R2 can sound nearly the same as a
compact Community W2-2V8. Not idencal, but extremely close in
character, parcularly in the zone that each is intended to cover.

CONEQ™ is just one outstanding dSPEC feature among a host of
others. Aer all, the world doesn’t need just another loudspeaker
processor. But what it does need, is a new way to get the job done.

Next, you select Protecon (pro•tec’on: providing safety).
This is where you’ll enter the power rangs of the amplifiers to ensure
that the protecve limiter algorithms funcon properly. Beer yet,
dSPEC can accurately measure each amplifier’s power level. By
connecng the amplifier to dSPEC’s built-in AMP CAL port, dSPEC
derives opmal limiter adjustments. AMP-CAL is quick and it’s smart.
Your loudspeakers will thank you for it.