AES/EBU Digital audio

[midiextender]

Does anybody ever need to run AES/EBU Digital audio over longer than usual distances.. Is there a demand for this?

[midiextender]

If so.. there is a solution which will allow the user to send AES/EBU Digital audio up to several miles.

[Andrew_Malloy]

In the years of designing systems, it comes up rarely in semi pro applications and never comes up in consumer applications. The AES50 spec is pretty solid at this point and is really starting to take hold. There are companies that make repeaters to extend the streams at about 330 feet each. Unless you are wiring a stadium, I could see very few uses for needing to send digital audio this far.

[michaelhoddy]

You can easily run AES over fiber for very long distances (miles and miles) with the right line drivers.

[midiextender]

Many thanks for the feedback regarding this!
Agreed, for a few industrial applications like "wiring up a stadium" something like this would be very useful.
I wasn't really sure about the consumer level either, you are probably correct.. not so much. If there are any other pro level applications you happen to think of, feel free to let me know. Concerts, live sound maybe? Thanks!

[Andrew_Malloy]

Many thanks for the feedback regarding this!
Agreed, for a few industrial applications like "wiring up a stadium" something like this would be very useful.
I wasn't really sure about the consumer level either, you are probably correct.. not so much. If there are any other pro level applications you happen to think of, feel free to let me know. Concerts, live sound maybe? Thanks!

Again, with concerts, see "Wiring a stadium". Anything where you have a manageable scale in the paradigm of say like an outdoor festival Ethersound, AES50, Cobranet, MADI and a few other protocols have no trouble getting to 100 M so the need extend AES past that is rare and in the case of AES50, Klark Teknik makes a repeater to handle this.

[midiextender]

You can easily run AES over fiber for very long distances (miles and miles) with the right line drivers.

Right. This particular unit would run AES/EBU over fiber.

[midiextender]

Just curious does anyone have an example of a "set up" they could share where they are using AES/EBU. It could be very simple. Thanks!

[midiextender]

Right. This particular unit would run AES/EBU over fiber.

up to a few miles...error free and interference free!