Update, Consolidate and Integrate Your Dolby Digital Systems

Even with the introduction of immersive audio, the ability to author/encode/decode formats such as Dolby E, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus and compatible stereo remains essential in many environments. Hence many facilities have a full complement of the original Dolby units which, to cover all the Dolby bases, can represent up to 7U of valuable operational rack space – not to mention the additional space required for cooling.

The Jünger Audio D*AP8 consolidates all that Dolby functionality into 1U and makes it shareable, remote controllable and routable. This new accessibility and convenience allow the installation of the Dolby-equipped D*AP8 in engineering racks, releasing that 7U of operational rack-space for more useful and creative tools.

A sensible operational and engineering decision.

A Jünger Host with a lot of Dolby

Jünger Audio’s highly regarded D*AP8 multi-channel processor platform can host two Dolby 5.1 encoder/decoder cards which, with the onboard tools of the Jünger host, effectively replace up to six original Dolby devices:

  • DP570 – Multichannel Audio Tool
  • DP571 – Dolby® E Encoder
  • DP572 – Dolby® E Decoder
  • DP569 – Dolby® D Encoder
  • DP563 – Pro Logic II Encoder
  • LM100 – Loudness & Dialnorm Meter

Replace all six units with a single D*AP8, recover upto 7U of rack space and update how you deploy this still-essential technology across your facility.

The D*AP8 is available in three guises.

  • D*AP8 TAP – 8ch multi-function transmission or finishing processor
  • D*AP MAP – 8ch monitoring controller
  • D*AP8 FLX – 8ch barebones platform which can have a selection of processes enabled by additional license activation.

Each of these variants can host one or two Dolby processing cards, each configurable as an all-format (D/D+/E/ProLogic) decoder, Meta-data emulator and Dolby D/D+ or Dolby E encoder.

In a fully equipped single 1U unit, that’s two decoders, two metadata emulators and two encoders.

Additional capability

The Dolby and D*AP8 TAP combination becomes an all-in-one finishing and Dolby encoding platform for 5.1-plus-stereo productions such as live sports or entertainment programming. The D*AP8 TAP includes Jünger’s Level Magic loudness control, to guarantee the delivery meets the required loudness specification.

Host the Dolby cards in the D*AP8 MAP monitoring processor and, with the support of the meta-data emulation, the combination is a highly capable surround monitoring and QA platform with monitoring control via any studio, gallery or control room web browser.

Or, if you only need Dolby encoding and decoding, deploy the D*AP8 FLX and simply route source and output channels directly to the appropriate Dolby encoder and decoder I/O ports.

In addition to the standard Dolby provision, the D*AP8 also adds Loudness Metering, Metadata Management, Programmable Events and, with an optional license, Loudness Logging.

Integration

Connect your Dolby hosting D*AP8 to your audio router to make it available to any of your facility’s studios, edit suites or workshops.

Audio I/O connections can be made to the onboard AES3id BNCs or via optional modular interfaces for multichannel MADI, Dante/AES67 and HD-SDI installed in the two I/O slots.

The D*AP8 is controllable from anywhere in the facility via a standard web browser, using a touchscreen if preferred. It can also be managed from a facility or broadcast control system using the Ember+ protocol.

Delivery

You can download Jünger Audio’s summary of the technical benefits of consolidating your Dolby capability into the D*AP8:
Junger_Audio_Technical_Recommendation_Dolby_DP-Series_Consolidation.pdf

Call or email us now to request a quote or discuss which Dolby and Jünger Audio combination best suits your requirements.

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