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The last five years have been a stunning success for XTA by anyone's reckoning and today many respected manufacturers recommend XTA processors as a preferred complementary system for their own products. At Frankfurt, XTA unveiled its most advanced and powerful audio management system, the DP428, which provides everything needed for digitally interfacing and managing the largest system. The DP428 offers 4x8 matrix capability, 48dB crossover slopes, and EQ solutions for addressing virtually any audio problem. There are four inputs, each offering gain control, a 28-band graphic EQ, eight filters, and a delay. Eight outputs each have gain control, polarity-switching, delay, high/low pass filtering, and up to nine filters. Any input can be routed to any combination of outputs, plus all ins and outs can be phase-adjusted in two-degree steps. The crossover offers a choice of two types, and 6, 12, 18, 24, or 48dB per octave roll-off. Two-stage RMS and Clip/D-max limiters are available, with look-ahead for the Clip limiter attack time. Digitally, the DP428 supports internal sample rates up to 96kHz, and can accept external sample rates to 192 kHz. AES/EBU inputs are standard on the DP428, and front-panel LEDs keep the user informed of the unit's status at all times.

Addressing this increased power and capability, XTA's AudioCore PC remote control software has also taken a big leap forward. The DP428's input/output routing can be controlled from simple screens, and EQ curves can be adjusted quickly and easily, even with tablet PCs. Up to 128 DP428s can be networked together and centrally controlled via AudioCore, using common XLR cables. For wireless control, XTA's Walkabout Kit allows fine-tuning the system from anywhere in the venue.

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