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Owner’s Manual
RCS 2.2 XP
Preamplifi er /
Dynamic Room Correction System
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WARNING TO REDUCE THE RISK OF FIRE OR ELECTRIC SHOCK, DO NOT EXPOSE THIS APPLIANCE TO RAIN OR MOISTURE. CAUTION RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT OPEN CAUTION: TO REDUCE THE RISK OF ELECTRICAL SHOCK, DO NOT REMOVE COVER. NO USER-SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE. REFER SERVICING TO QUALIFIED PERSONNEL. The exclamation point within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of important operating and maintenance (servicing) instructions in the literature accompanying the produ
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Important Safety 1. Read these instructions entirely before installing or operating this equip- Instructions ment. 2. Keep these instructions. 3. Heed all warnings. 4. Do not use this equipment near water or allow it to become wet. 5. Do not block any ventilation openings. Install in accordance with the manufac- turer’s instructions. CAUTION CAUTION 6. Do not install near any heat sources such as radiators, heat registers, stoves, or other appliances (including amplifi ers) that produce heat; d
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Acknowledgments © 2006 Tact Audio Corporation. All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or other wise, without the prior written consent of the Tact Audio Corporation. The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice. Registration Please record your serial number here for future reference. You will need this for IMPORTANT! future upgrades or should you ever re
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Safety instructions 4 Acknowledgments/Registration 5 Unpacking the RCS 2.2X 7 I In ntr troduc oduction tion 8 8 CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION Dynamic Room Correction 10 Automatic Room Correction 12 Connecting the RCS 2.2X 20 Front Panel Controls 25 Remote Control 26 Front Panel Display 28 M
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UNPACKING THE RCS 2.2 XP Carefully remove the RCS 2.2 XP and accessory kit from the carton and visually check for shipping damage. Contact both the shipper and TacT Audio immediately if the unit shows any sign of damage from rough handling. All TacT Audio equip- ment is carefully inspected before leaving our factory. KEEP SHIPPING CARTON AND PACKING MATERIALS for future use or in the unlikely event that the unit needs servicing. If this unit is shipped without the original packing, damage c
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INTRODUCTION Congratulations on your purchase of your RCS 2.2 XP. You have now acquired the most advanced stereo Preamplifi er / Room Correction System ever developed! The RCS 2.2 XP has four times the processing power of the famous TacT RCS 2.0 and even better AD and DA conversion. This now combined with new fea- tures and a more user-friendly interface takes TacT Audio’s room correction to new heights. The RCS 2.2 XP has no noise and extremely low distortion, yielding CAUTION CAUTION am
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Introduction Modular design The internal layout of the RCS 2.2 XP is completely modular. All of the expensive components such as DSP’s, D/A and A/D converters are a plug-in type and are placed on a motherboard. This allows for easy and inexpensive future upgrades. Even the rear-panel, including the sockets, can be exchanged to accommodate future interfaces. The front-panel and DSP’s are 100% software driven, and improvements or new True Upgradeability features can be loaded through the RS23
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DYNAMIC ROOM CORRECTION Dynamic Room Correction (DRC) ® is new technology developed by Tact Audio Inc. over past two years. This groundbreaking brings the science and art of Room Correction, and specifi cally Tact room correction products, to yet another level. When we introduced our fi rst RCS system (the Tact-2.2 in the late 90’s) we were fully aware that we were embarking on a long term research process in the new exciting fi eld of room acoustics correction. As a result of this research ef
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Traditional Tact room correction systems use one target curve that allows for full range 20-20,000 Hz room corrections. Once selected, the same target curve (same set of correction fi lters) was used at all listening levels. This approach did not take in account the fact that our sound perception, as described by Fletcher- Munson curves, is frequency and level dependent. Many of our customers have realized this fact and they have used the nine correction presets (available on all our RCS pr
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AUTOMATIC ROOM CORRECTION Tact-2.2 XP can now perform room correction automatically from the 2.2 XP front panel user interface, without the need for an PC software. The automatic room correction feature is designed to perform the entire room cor- rection process without using a PC interface. The Tact-2.2 XP has suffi cient DSP processing power to perform room measurement, crossover fi lter design, target curve generation and correction fi lter calculation. The entire process is controlled CAUT
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2.2 Mode This operating mode assumes a stereo system consisting of two main channels and two subwoofers. To select 2.2 mode from the main screen, click on the MENU button, and then select the MODE menu. In MODE menu, click on the STEREO 2.2 option. This will select 2.2 mode and will display it on top of the screen (1) Fig.1. Fig. 1. Mode menu. 2.2 mode selection is displayed in the upper left corner (1). To perform 2.2 mode automatic room correction go through the following steps: 1. Correct
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CAUTION CAUTION Fig. 4. Crossover menu. CRO: OFF indicates that crossover fi lters are disabled Crossover fi lters can be turned OFF from the front panel crossover menu (Fig. 4). Place the screen cursor over the CRO: ON menu option and then press the enter button (click) until it displays CRO: OFF, and then click on SET option.. Please note that any change made on this screen does not take effect until you click on the SET option. Click on the MENU button to go back to the DRC-RCS screen, Fig.
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DELAY. If you do not want to be in the room while measurement is in progress, set this parameter to a few seconds to allow you to exit the room. For example, if DELAY = 10 the system will wait for 10 seconds before it starts pulsing. PULSE. This parameter sets the relative level of the output measurement pulse. Minimum level is 1% and maximum level is 100%. FILE. Use this option to assign a File number to the measurement you are just about to perform. At the end of the measurement process,
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4. Enable automatic room correction. In the DRC-RCS screen (Fig. 3), select correction preset 1. Make sure that crossover fi lters are enabled and proper crossover frequency is selected. Crossover fi lters can be adjusted at any time even after you enable the automatic feature. Click on the AUTO-OFF menu option to enter the Auto Correction screen (Fig. 5). Note that in bypass mode the AUTO- OFF(ON) menu option is not displayed. CAUTION CAUTION Fig. 5 Auto Correction screen. In the Auto Corre
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2.1 Mode This operating mode assumes a stereo system consisting of two main channels and one subwoofer. To select 2.1 mod from the main screen, click on the MENU button to enter the main menu screen and then select the MODE menu. In the MODE menu click on the STEREO 2.1 option. This will select 2.1 mode and dis- play it on top of the screen (1). Fig. 6. Mode menu. 2.1 mode selection is displayed in the upper left corner (1). The rest of the procedure is the same as in 2.2 mode. Note the change
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2.0 Mode This operating mode assumes a stereo system consisting of two main channels only. To select 2.0 mode from the main screen, click on the MENU button to enter main menu screen and then select the MODE menu. In the MODE menu click on STEREO 2.0 option. This will select 2.0 mode and display it on top of the screen (1). CAUTION CAUTION Fig. 8. Mode menu. 2.0 mode selection is displayed in the upper left corner (1). The rest of the procedure is the same as in 2.2 mode. Note the change in
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RCS 2.2 XP CONNECTIONS Digital input The RCS 2.2 XP has 5 digital inputs: 3 S/PDIF (RCA) • 1 AES/EBU (XLR) • 1 Optical ( Optical ( Optical (T T TosLink) osLink) • CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION A Al ll l o of f t th he e d di ig gi it ta al l i in np pu ut ts s s su up pp po or rt t P PC CM M a au ud di io o d da at ta a w wi it th h s sa am mp pl li in ng g r ra at te es s f fr ro om m 3 32 2 k kH Hz z to 96 kHz /16-24 bits. However, the AE
