Processor Cary Cinema 12
Company Cary Audio Design was founded way back in 1989 in the United States. The first product was a young firm uncompromising stereo tube amplifier, and before the end of the century the range of products accounted for two-channel electronic components higher level. With increasing interest in the topic of home movies, including to be the ultimate theatrical solutions that are very popular overseas, there are such devices and Cary Audio Design, and engineers have invested in them all his vast experience in the design of dual-channel technology. As a result, today the model number of the company's co-exist peacefully two equal series. Classic Series family combines stereo sets, the creation of which the developers Cary Audio Design remained faithful to the good old lamp. It consists of twin-block and integrated amplifiers, phono turntable, digital to analog converters, the SACD players, and CD and even modern network music server. That is all that is needed to create a high-end stereo system - remains only add acoustics. Equipment for home theater line highlighted in Cinema Series. In this area, the company promotes the ultimate approach - according to him gain should be separated from the processing. Currently, Cary Audio Design offers two seven-channel power amplifier, a dual-channel model and a candy bar. But also in the processing of the components of the company is divided into two parts - for switching and video conversion meets Cary Cinema 11v, and work with soundtracks entrusted entirely new Cary Cinema 12, who came to the attention of our experts.
On the one hand, Cary Cinema 12 - this is the sound processor. Processing and video switching, the company has a separate device - Cary Cinema 11v. At the same time, without HDMI ports are still not done - track high-resolution, whether theatrical formats Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio or music in DSD, can be transferred to your device through this interface. However, by chance, it is a sound processor Cary Cinema 12 became the first company in the history of the component that was equipped with HDMI version 1.4, which means that it can be used in advanced home theater systems with support for three-dimensional video.
Supporters of hardline decisions in this area will appreciate this news on the merit, as it is usually support for new formats like audio and video appears in models of higher discharge delay - manufacturers first introduce advanced technology into mass line AV-receiver, after some time his turn comes to the top devices and theatrical processors adopt new standards with a long delay. So Cary Cinema 12 was a happy exception to the rule. Moreover, it may well be taken as a general purpose processor for home theater. In modern systems, almost all of the components in communication with each other for a long time went on for HDMI, and Cary Cinema 12 offers a well-developed switching of this type - four input ports and one output, which should be enough in most cases. Complexity, perhaps, may occur only in systems with two display devices that require a second output HDMI. The absence in the arsenal of Cary Cinema 12 features video processing is not a problem, as all the latest video sources to successfully cope with the tasks of de-interlacing and scaling content, and video processors top TVs or projectors sometimes superior in its capabilities chips are responsible for processing the video in the AV Processor and receivers. Use a separate video processor Cary Cinema 11v makes sense only when in the complex has a theatrical old sources, equipped with only analog outputs standard definition video.
Thus, implementing the minimum necessary and quite, as we found out, a sufficient set of functions associated with the transfer of video, the company's engineers fully focused on the main task - audio processing. In fact, Cary Cinema 12 - not only the center of a home theater can decode film soundtracks in the latest formats. This component is successfully cope with the role of the pre-amp and DAC in the high-end music system. To solve such problems he has one balanced and seven normal stereo inputs, and digital switching is represented as a family optical and coaxial ports family and professional balanced AES/EBU input on the connector XLR. To connect to a PA system is part of a complete set of analog outputs, and also in the balanced and, in the usual form.
During the processing of the sound corresponds to two 32-bit processor Cirrus Logic CS49700. Analog-to-digital conversion is performed chip Burr-Brown PCM1802, and the reverse conversion of charged micro-PCM1795 same brand, operating in dual differential mode. Signal processors are not just engaged in decoding digital streams, but also provide the necessary correction of room acoustics based on parameters calculated during automatic calibration system with the help of the measuring microphone. Sound optimization can be carried out for the six seats that fully satisfies the majority of configurations home cinemas. In this case, you can save a few customization options in profiles memory - for example, to form individual profiles for watching movies and listening to music.
Faceplate Cary Cinema 12 is made of thick milled aluminum plate anodized. Its center is decorated with legible fluorescent display, the right of which is a large volume control knob. The selector inputs of numerous processor is configured for convenience as direct selection of keys arranged in one row in the entire width of the housing. Taking off the top cover of the machine, you can admire the neat installation and sophisticated design of the processor. Directly behind the front panel on the center mounted an impressive power transformer.
Next to him, mounted two small fee Tuner FM. The rest of the circuit board area takes its own processor. For remote control Cary Cinema 12 manufacturer, apparently, chose a universal solution to one of the famous companies in this field. Big and solid panel has a touch screen along with the processor is able to control and other system components.
Included is also a second remote, smaller and simpler, designed for operation in the second listening area.
Accompanying movies as part of our reference home theater system Cary Cinema 12 showed a dense and very clean sound. Sound fabric literally envelops the audience, sparking crystals smallest detail. Spatial localization of objects was so real that, for example, in the scenes of shootings sometimes instinctively want to duck from sews space around bullets. Listening to familiar music tracks found another feature in the character of the sound system - with amazing detail and careful study of the entire frequency range of the interpretation of musical works, the proposed Cary Cinema 12, can not be considered dispassionately-analytic. Phonograms have not dissected a professional surgeon with a scalpel, and live and breathe their rhythm. Brilliant result!
