Crane Song Avocet IIA 7.1 Surround Monitoring w/ Remote

The Crane Song Avocet IIA is designed to solve the problems of accurate monitoring and volume control as required by workstation users, studios and mastering rooms alike. It is a stereo controller with three digital inputs, three analog inputs and a headphone system. It's comprised of a rack mounted unit and table top remote control. Avocet has many features including; dim, mute, phase, mono, and 16 bit truncation functions, plus a speaker select switch that sends line level balanced audio to one of three outputs. The six input sources have on the fly gain trim capability and all digital signals are up-sampled and jitter reduced to ensure highest accuracy during D/A conversion.

The internal headphone amplifier can be fed from the program source or an external input. Provisions for a talk back function are included.

Avocet IIA can operate in surround up to 7.1, with the appropriate number of audio boxes in the system.

Direct sub woofer outputs for each of the three output have been added. The output levels are now programmable in 0.25 db steps for speaker level matching.