Audio equipment needed to work with blackmagic intensity pro

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Vicky,

Just to understand your setup:

The Blackmagic Intensity Pro 4K is either HDMI, 2 Channel RCA HiFi audio in 24-bit (or SPDIF Audio to which there are little information about). But there is no SDI?

Your Genelec 8010 speakers are XLR in?

Cheapest, not necessarily perfect, is to to get a mini jack stereo to 2 x XLR male (Left and Right) and use the audio out of your headphone socket. You will still need to use the software volume control on your Mac/PC. Or if you have the multicore cable, get two phono to XLR cables.

The alternative is a break-out box, and once you start spending money on that, you might end up with an Avid S1 or similar. There is likely to be other motorized Audio mixers on Black Friday sale, but would not know where to start, and how it will integrate into your system.

Hope that this helps just a little bit.

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Mads

[Vicky Peters]

Hi Mads! Thank you so much for your reply. I don’t think I can connect the speakers to the headphone jack as in order to get Avid to playback on the Samsung TV, it engages the Blackmagic Intensity card and basically has to playback audio through the Blackmagic as well. I’ve heard the latest Avid update allows you to choose to playback audio from another source, but that the sync drifts significantly so it’s not worth it.

I haven’t yet bought the Genelec speakers, but I’m planning to in the next few days. Do you think passive speakers are the way forward instead? I remember I once connected a pair of passive speakers with an amp to the Blackmagic. An amp takes up a lot of desk space though and I feel is unnecessary. Would something like the Genelec 8010 AP M-Control help? Regardless of the volume control, I’d just be happy to connect the speakers to the Blackmagic somehow. By breakout box do you mean the Blackmagic Audio to SDI?

[Vicky Peters]

Also yes just the HDMI and RCA breakout cable.

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Vicky,

I don;t know enough about your system setup, like if it is PC or Mac?
Do you have any other monitor out from it?
This might allow you to ignore the Blackmagic card.

I’ve still got to install my MediaComposer licence, which I planned to get up to speed with over Christmas. So I don’t know about audio routing. But if on PC, you should be able to select one or the other, or both.

In my setup I use the IK iLoud Micro Monitor and is very happy with that for the size of my workspace. They have Bluetooth, phono and Stereo mini-jack as input.
https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/iloudmm/

If I had more room that could give bigger speakers the space for the audio to “travel” then that would be my preference.

When in doubt, I use head-phones.

I would suggest that you check if the breakout cable works whilst HDMI is played back on the screen?
You could also plug in, I hope, headphones to the television and listen to if that works?
Yes, the purist will say that embedding audio into HDMI, then extracting it a processing it out analogue to headphones might not give you the best end-result for high-end audio.

It is Black Friday sale today and Cyber Monday on Monday. If you see something that you feel good about, and the price matches your budget, maybe it is worth taking jump in and see where it leads you?

Hope that this helps?

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Mads

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