Multi-channel AES/EBU to consumer digital surround converter?

[Jeff Mack]

Marco,

I found this but is only caries stereo. I doubt your receiver will have 4 inputs.

Good luck. BTW, what you are sending is a live stream. I mean you can’t send ac3 files?

Jeff

[Marco Solorio]

Hi Jeff,

The Kona 3’s digital audio outputs are obviously uncompressed AES/EBU, but those discreet channels need to be muxed/converted in real-time to a single stream digital surround signal (e.g., AC3, DTS, etc.) as consumer coax or fiber optic; the same you’d get from any cheap DVD player.

It’s the real-time transcoding portion of it that makes me think such a box would be very expensive. I may have to just go the DAC route and feed individual analog ins.

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[Matthew Simmons]

Hi we make an 8 channel AES/EBU to HDMI Audio converter exactly what you need – We developed it for just this purpose

contact me to discuss

M.

[Yeewei Chai]

Hello I would like to find out about this multichannel aes to consumer surround device you are talking about,

Please email me any details at ywchai@gmail.com please thanks!!

[Jeremy Robins]

I know this thread is old but it came up often in my internet searches so I wanted to post my solution. I ended up purchasing the Arvus AES-2H. It sounds great and is the ideal unit for embedding 5.1/7.1 mixes from your pro interface to a preamp or receiver as a monitoring solution. This takes multiple channels of AES/EBU and embeds them as multiple channels of LPCM to be decoded by your pre/DAC of choice.

He’s a link: https://www.aes-hdmi.com/aes-2h.html

I hope this helps anyone else looking for a similar solution.

[Marco Solorio]

Thanks Jeremy, this is a nice solution. I would have preferred either fiber optic or a coax transmission, but this might work and is the closest thing to a solution so far. I’d imagine that the HDMI signal could be extended from our machine room to the edit suite using a twisted pair extender solution. Not bad.

How much is this unit selling for? I can’t find pricing information on it anywhere.

Thanks!

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