Mercenary Audio - Lynx Studio AES16-XLR

The Lynx AES16 is a simple PCI card that provides 16 channels of AES/EBU I/O for any computer with ASIO or Core Audio support. This is an all digital card, meaning no converters. It can be used in conjunction with converters by Apogee, the Lynx Aurora or any other converter with AES output. Sound quality is not a factor with the AES16 since the conversion is taking place in an external box and not on the card. Latency is also a non-issue as this PCI card has extremely low latency due to its on-board buffers and other proprietary "zero-wait state DMA engine". This is the card we used for many years in our Neundo rig to connect our Apogee AD and DA-16x. They ran flawlessly with no glitches or crashes.

Lynx aes16-xlr features

The AES16 offers AES/EBU channel capacity and routing flexibility in a single PCI card format. With support for up to 16 channels of input and output at sample rates up to 192 kHz, the AES16 turns your computer into a powerful digital router or patchbay with extensive flexibility with minimal cabling. Most importantly, the AES16 supports the emerging single-wire 192 kHz standard and is compatible with existing dual-wire AES/EBU devices. Up to four AES16’s can be installed in a single computer.

SynchroLock™ > Offering a solution for jitter problems in AES signals, the AES16 incorporates a new Lynx technology called SynchroLock™ that provides extreme jitter tolerance at all inputs. By coupling statistical analysis with low-noise clock generation techniques, SynchroLock is able to extract a very clean clock from AES signals affected by long cable lengths and other noise sources. The clock output of SynchroLock can also be used as a very accurate word clock source for other studio devices.

Extremely Low Latencies > Glitch-free recording and playback is assured due to the AES16’s large on-board buffers and extremely efficient zero-wait state DMA engine. These features provide tolerance to system latencies and significantly reduce load on the host CPU. Data transfer hardware and software are highly optimized to provide extremely low latencies for ASIO and other real-time applications.

Expandability > The AES16 includes an LStream expansion port for increasing its I/O capabilities. Connecting a Lynx LS-ADAT adds multi-channel ADAT lightpipe I/O and supports format conversion between AES/EBU and ADAT. The LStream port can also be used for routing data to a second AES16 and increasing the channel count to 32.

On-Board Digital Mixer > The on-board digital mixer offers flexible patch-bay style routing and digital mixing. Zero Latency 32-channel / 32-bit digital mixer with 16 sub outputs. Multiple dither algorithms per channel.

FEATURES

24 bit AES/EBU format; Dolby Digital®, DTS, HDCD support
16 I/O in single-wire mode; 8 I/O in dual-wire mode
Transformer-coupled XLR connections (AES16-XLR; AES16-SRC)
Optional eight channels of sample rate conversion (AES16-SRC only)
LStream port provides 16 channels of ADAT I/O
Clock source: digital inputs, internal and external clocks
Word Clock and multi-card synchronization
Zero Latency 32-channel / 32-bit digital mixer with 16 sub outputs
Multiple dither algorithms per channel
Extremely low-jitter, tunable sample clock with SynchroLock™Zero-wait state, 16-channel, scatter-gather DMA engine
Windows 2000/XP: MME, ASIO 2.0, WDM, DirectSound,
Direct Kernel Streaming and GSIF
Macintosh OSX: CoreAudio

INCLUDED WITH THE AES16-XLR

AES16 192 kHz Multichannel AES/EBU PCI Card
Two CBL-AES1604 cables
AES16 CD ROM with owners manual, drivers for Windows and Macintosh

MANUALS & PDFs

Lynx AES16 Manual Adobe pdf

Lynx AES16 Product Info Adobe pdf

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