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Standard Capabilities 1. Digital Input Cards: 6 coax RCA, 3 TosLink,
1 AES/EBU, 1 coax BNC; 2. Analog input board (6 stereo analog inputs, 2 stereo analog tape outputs). 3. 96kHz/24 bit capability in all twelve channels (depending upon DAC choices). 4. RS-232 control 5. Ability to download new software: DSP and control system software can be downloaded as a file from the theta digital web site to a PC (not available for Macintosh computers), then sent to the Casablanca II. 6. Twelve channel capability (1. front left / 2. front center / 3. front right / 4. surround left / 5. surround right / 6. side left / 7. side right / 8. front left sub / 9. front right sub / 10. surround left sub / 11. surround right sub / 12. front center sub or center rear surround). 7. Theta Center Surround offers superior channel separation to THX EX. 8. Full speaker configuration for each input (can help optimize the system for two-channel playback on one input, home theater on another). 9. 3 different types of crossovers independently selectable for each speaker set (speaker sets = left/right, center, surround, Theta Center Surround™ Types of crossovers = phase perfect, Butterworth, Linkwitz-Riley. 10. Up to 7 crossover frequencies and up to four slope options available for each speaker set. 11. Capable of 5 subwoofers (left/right/center/left surround/right surround). 12. Two options for a two-subwoofer setup: left/right or front/rear. 13. Hi frequency equalization in all channels. 14. Jitter Jail, digitally stores audio samples in a buffer, then clocks them to the DACs using a high-quality crystal oscillator section. 15. Side channels, with separately adjustable levels and delays. 16. Can optimize level and delay settings for Dolby Digital; DTS; and Circle Surround - each process has separate controls for speaker levels and delays. 17. Dolby Digital® 18. DTS® 19. Ability to apply matrix, special matrix, Circle Surround (optional) to stereo (two channel) Dolby Digital sources. 20. Discrete IR command to bring Casablanca in and out of standby. 21. Serial number will be programmed into the unit at the factory, accessible when the unit boots up via the front panel display. 22. Maximum Level Limiter: governor is set and released by owner to protect system from being overdriven by zealous or experimenting friends and loved ones. 23. Casablanca II owners can password-protect the unit's settings. 24. Highly readable blue vacuum fluorescent display. 25. Inputs can be given any name you choose. 26. Customizable Un-mute trigger. You select the response of the Un-mute function: does pressing the volume Un-mute the unit if muted? Or only by pressing mute again? 27. You select the volume level at which the Casablanca comes out of standby. Choose either a pre-defined level, which you program in, or set It to resume at the same volume level at which it was put into standby. 28. Overall delay (applies to all channels), by input, to match video delay through a video processor (can be up to 110 mSec). 29 Party mode (send sum of all channels to all speakers, with dominance of speaker's main source). 30. Stereo front/rear mode. 31. Complete cabling/setup freedom - any jack can be routed to any and every input select button. 32. Four 12v trigger jacks with variable timing; pulse or dc, variable pulse length. 33. Comprehensive "template copy" capability for fast, easy setup. Optimizing your Casablanca's many functions is streamlined, because you don't have to do repetitive steps that are the same as related settings you have already made, which you can just copy, then modify as needed. Includes ability to restore factory defaults to all settings. 34. Central Power Redistribution (CPR) (patent pending) corrects for theater sound mixes, which bunch up much of the sound in the center channel - great for a vast theater, but terrible in a home environment where the center channel is often the weakest. Power Steering enhances the quality and dynamic range of sound while making much better use of the best speakers. Standard: Matrix, Special Matrix, Dolby Pro Logic, Dolby Digital, DTS, Stereo, Analog direct, Analog Matrix, Mono. Optional: Circle Surround (includes Encoded,
Non-Encoded, Cinema). Optional Capabilities 1. Your Casablanca II can have from 2 to 12 channels: choose among these three 3 types of DACs for your configuration - (a) 3 channel superior DAC (balanced and single ended), can handle 96kHz source. (b) 3 channel standard DAC (balanced and single ended), will mute on 96kHz source. (c) 6 channel standard DAC (single ended only), will mute on 96kHz source. Cards can be mixed and matched for the channels and quality level that you desire. 2. Circle Surround ® 3. Broadcast quality video switching: (a) 6 composite, 4 s-video inputs, 1 composite tape out, 1 composite main out, 1 s-video tape out, 1 s-video main out OR (b) 8 s-video inputs, 2 s-video tape out, 2 s-video main out. Necessary for on-screen display. 4. Rack mount 5. Anodized aluminum cover (vibration resistant, heat dissipating, and an aesthetic match for the brushed aluminum front panel). 6. Tape out DAC, for recording or sending to a second zone one digital source while listening to another. 7. CASTLE PC control software, for saving the full CBII setup to your PC and for fully controlling / setting up the unit from a PC (This option is not available for use with Macintosh computers). (Future option.) 8. 12 channel digital output card, 96kHz capable, with or without center channel superior DAC (also 96kHz capable). Yes, you could hook up 6 Generation V 96kHz's and have all twelve channels be 96kHz compatible).
There are wondrous things afoot in home entertainment. Dolby Digital (for discrete surround sound) is part of the specifications for digital television, part of a trend to upgrade the sound in television broadcasting. Dolby Digital is already available from DSS. Many sports events are even broadcast in surround sound. Casablanca II is the magic carpet that gets you to all these new sonic environments.
This 6 channel (5.1) digital surround sound format can make amazingly good sound. Introduced for theater sound in 1993 in Spielberg's Jurassic Park, it is now in widespread use in movie theaters. As a home system, DTS offers some intriguing format advantages, as software is available both as music on CDs and movies on laserdiscs and DVD discs. DTS offers a vast capacity for preserving detailed musical information intact. Its data rate capability (32 kbps - 4,069kbps) is much greater than Dolby (32 kbps - 640 kbps), while its data compression can be much gentler (a 3:1 ratio versus Dolby's 12:1). DTS was designed specifically as a high quality, high fidelity audio medium, which is why it provides for extremely high bit rates, and can deliver 6 channels of 20 bit audio at 48khz.
Matrixing processes like Dolby Pro Logic only deliver mono surround signals. Circle Surround technology uses ambient information available in stereo recordings, stereo recordings encoded for surround sound, and recordings specifically encoded in Circle Surround, to provide stereo surround sound information to the surround speakers. Circle Surround provides realistic surround environments from two-channel music recordings. Accurate surround Sound signals based on the stereo information in the recording provide a musical experience with sonic integrity, which allows you to believe in what you're hearing. Circle Surround also creates a believable front soundstage, apportioning the stereo signal more comfortably across your three front channel speakers. This makes your home cinema system music-friendly in a way that it otherwise cannot be. Circle Surround is clearly the preferred mode for music listening. Casablanca is able to offer the fullest realization of Circle Surround's potential. Most other implementations of Circle Surround will be done in the analog domain. Casablanca's implementation is fully digital, and is incorporated into the digital signal processing, which keeps errors and noise from creeping in.
Circle Surround Modes
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