Fostex DS-8 SERVICE MANUAL

February 2000

FOSTEX UPGRADES DS-8 TO ACCEPT 24-BIT, 96 KHZ SIGNALS

NORWALK, California — Fostex recently upgraded its DP-8 with the introduction of the DS-8 digital patch bay.

“The proliferation of DVD and high-end sound cards has created a huge market for products offering a 96 kHz sampling rate,” says Phil Celia, director of sales for Fostex Corporation of America. “The new DS-8 is an upgrade of the DP-8 offering a wider sampling frequency range, from 32kHz to 96kHz, with selectable bit rates of 24, 20, 16 and 12. This device brings the latest advances in digital technology to the consumer at an affordable price.”

The rack-mountable DS-8 offers eight inputs and eight outputs. Six of the inputs and outputs are optical S/PDIF, while the remaining inputs and outputs are coaxial with RCA connectors.

Headquartered in Norwalk, California, Fostex Corporation of America is a leading manufacturer and marketer of innovatively state-of-the-art professional DAT recorders, personal studio products, digital multitrack recorders and hard disk recorder / editors. The company is the American subsidiary of The Fostex Corporation of Japan.