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Condition: Used, Excellent
This unit has recieved the Black Lion Premium Mod service - details under "Specifications".
From Dangerous Music
YOUR STUDIO’S CENTERPIECE
The D-BOX is a transparent, audiophile-grade monitor controller for tracking, mixing and mastering with eight channels of Dangerous Music’s award-winning analog summing at an unbelievable price point. Legendary designer Chris Muth has developed a world-class circuit for the D-BOX that provides crystal clear fidelity and flawless performance across its flexible feature set. The D-BOX handles your input source monitoring, speaker switching, cue, talkback, headphone and mixing needs in just one rack space. The D-BOX hosts reference-grade D/A conversion, switchable analog inputs between balanced +4dBu and unbalanced -10dBV, two powerful 20w/channel headphone amps, a built-in talkback mic, and a stunning analog summing mixer that will give your mixes the headroom and sonic dimensionality needed to achieve truly professional results
YOU MUST HEAR EVERYTHING
True craftsmanship is in the details. If you can’t hear the nuances of what you’re working on, then you simply can’t make informed decisions. Everything from placing a mic, to turning a knob on an EQ, to coaching a singer though a delicate passage depends on being able to hear exactly what’s going on. With the advent of “prosumer” gear, the monitoring path is typically sacrificed to meet a price-point, allowing what should be true craftsmanship to become guesswork. You simply can’t mix what you can’t hear. To solve this problem, the D-BOX incorporates audiophile-grade components in an unconditionally transparent design that reveals every last detail, allowing you to get things right the first time. Additionally, the D-BOX routes all your digital signals through the same onboard reference-grade digital-to-analog converter, giving you the same unified monitoring experience used by the world’s best mastering engineers.
HEAR EVEN MORE WITH ANALOG SUMMING
Our award-winning active analog summing provides the increased headroom and vast sonic space needed to achieve truly stunning mixes. With the D-BOX’s analog summing mixer, your digital subgroups (or “stems”) are sent out of your session via your interface’s D/A converters to the D-BOX’s eight analog summing inputs, providing incredible headroom, dimensionality and clarity. No more collapsing mixes from shoving everything into a single digital fader, with the D-BOX panning becomes precise, reverbs and delays more engaging and clear, bass punchier, mids more detailed and the top end more open. Require even more channels of analog summing? Simply expand with the Dangerous Music 2-BUS LT or the innovative 2-BUS+.
Black Lion Premium Mod
- Standard Mod - Analog
- New, high performance op-amps on EVERY analog input/output/summing stages
Proprietary op-amp decoupling on EVERY analog input/output/summing stages
Proprietary power decoupling on analog outputs/summing stages
Improving the performance of the analog stage circuits makes a drastic difference for summing your mixes!
Premium Mod (includes Standard Mod) - Digital
New, internal “Signature Series” master word clock
This improves the sampling accuracy and stereo imaging of the digital inputs of your D-Box when converting from digital to analog!
Get ready to hear your D-Box like never before!
- Frequency Response
- 1Hz-100kHz within 0.1dB
- THD+N
- < 0.003%
- IMD
- < 0.004%
- Crosstalk
- < -97dB
- Noise
- < -89dBu total energy in audio band
- Maximum Input
- +27dBu
MONITOR SECTION
- Frequency Response
- 1Hz-100kHz within 0.1dB
- THD+N
- < 0.003%
- IMD
- < 0.0035%
- Crosstalk
- < -100dB
- Noise
- < -91dBu total energy in audio band
- Maximum Input
- +26dBu
- D/A CONVERTER
- Locks to standard AES or SPDIF signals 32kHz-100kHz
- Crosstalk
- < -101dB
- Noise
- < -92dBu
- THD+N
- 0.005%
- Nominal operating level
- +4 dBu
- Input impedance
- 25kohms balanced
- Output impedance
- 50 ohms balanced
- Power consumption
- 25 Watt
Warranty
This item is sold without the Sound Pure 3-year warranty (used / B-stock / dealer-exempt). Coverage terms for items in this category live in Terms & Conditions, Section 27.
Returns
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