ACTUS cable design

[Ermos (Erno)]

@PAR

I recall dCS mentioning that that had sent samples to various cable manufacturers and I expect there will have been technical data exchanged too,

Indeed:

New Generation Digital Interconnections

Following on from the above, on the webinar David explained that the Actus interface consists of six twisted pairs: One pair carries the 44.1kHz clock One pair carries the 48kHz clock Four pairs carry the audio, control and status signals So the last part does indeed start to sound very similar to Ethernet. Interestingly the geometry of the socketry has been devised to keep the two sets of clock signals separately shielded from the audio & control lines: [Actus] David also mentioned that …