SPL 2Control Speaker & Headphone Monitoring Controller - 2860

SPL 2Control Speaker & Headphone Monitoring Controller Highlights

• 2 x excellent headphone amplifiers
• use 2 x stereo speaker sets
• Control near-field monitors, full-range speakers and headphone monitoring for two listeners from one central unit!
• Adjust stereo width on headphones with the Crossfeed control
• Separate mono speaker output

Included in the Box

• 1 x 2Control

Description

The 2Control with its unique Crossfeed control allows you to judge a stereo panorama on headphones just like with loudspeakers. The unit's concept is consequently based upon duality: Two channels, two sources, two loudspeaker sets, two headphones—2Control.

The 2Control combines loudspeaker and headphone monitoring in a compact, user-friendly and high quality control device. Any studio based on a digital audio workstation (DAW) can benefit from its important and essential monitoring functions. The concept of the 2Control is based on a dual-channel operation that allows for connection of two sources, two stereo speaker sets and two headphones.

The advantages of an analog monitoring controller becomes especially apparent in combination with modern audio and video production tools such as ProTools™, Nuendo™, Cubase™, Logic™, Deck™, etc. Monitor levels and source management can be handled independently of the software and with virtually no loss in quality. You no longer need to set up additional aux sends for monitoring. In addition, you won’t have to worry about over- or underdriving the converters when changing monitor levels.

The high-quality 2Control speaker volume potentiometer and active circuits correspond with the high demands in professional audio applications regarding sound quality and usability. In contrast to passive circuits, the 2Control’s active designs do not influence impedances when levels change. Altering impedances would again have effects on the frequency response, so the 2Control’s active design guarantees linearity. Often there is the need to “zoom” into audio material when listening to quiet passages or checking for artifacts etc. – and only active designs offer signal amplification.

Each of the three speaker outputs (2 x stereo, 1 x mono) is driven by its own balancing stage to exclude signal degrading mutual influences. Each headphone output is supplied by a separate amplifier to allow for completely independent operation of two headphones without any interaction from the other output.

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