
PRELIMINARY HONO COBRANET 16.16D
www.audioscience.com 5 22 August 2011
7 CONTENTS
1DESCRIPTION................................................................................................................................................... 1
2FEATURES........................................................................................................................................................ 1
3ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS SPECIFICATION........................................................................................ 2
4SPECIFICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................. 2
5BLOCK DIAGRAM............................................................................................................................................. 3
6REVISIONS........................................................................................................................................................ 4
7CONTENTS........................................................................................................................................................ 5
8TABLE OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................................................ 7
9IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS........................................................................................................... 8
10 NOTICES.......................................................................................................................................................... 10
11 INTRODUCTION.............................................................................................................................................. 11
11.1 COBRANET™.............................................................................................................................................................12
11.2 COBRANET ROUTING .................................................................................................................................................12
11.2.1 Audio Routing Channels ....................................................................................................................................13
11.2.2 CobraNet Transmitters ......................................................................................................................................14
11.2.3 CobraNet Receivers...........................................................................................................................................14
11.2.4 CobraNet Sample Rate and Latency..................................................................................................................14
11.2.5 CobraNet References.........................................................................................................................................14
12 HARDWARE INSTALLATION......................................................................................................................... 15
12.1 RACK MOUNTING .......................................................................................................................................................15
12.2 ETHERNET CONNECTION ............................................................................................................................................15
12.3 AC POWER .................................................................................................................................................................15
13 OPERATION.................................................................................................................................................... 16
13.1 POWER UP SEQUENCE .................................................................................................................................................16
13.1.1 AC Power...........................................................................................................................................................16
13.1.2 Firmware images...............................................................................................................................................16
13.1.3 Firmware loading sequence...............................................................................................................................16
13.1.4 Loading the factory firmware image..................................................................................................................16
13.2 FRONT PANEL DISPLAY ..............................................................................................................................................17
13.2.1 CobraNet Transmit and Receive Peak Meters Display......................................................................................17
13.2.2 CobraNet Bundle Number and Channel Settings Display .................................................................................18
13.2.3 MAC and IP Address Display............................................................................................................................18
13.2.4 Product Information Display.............................................................................................................................18
13.2.5 Module Input/Output Meters – Analog Display.................................................................................................19
13.2.6 Input/Output Meters – AES/EBU interface........................................................................................................19
13.3 RESETTING THE CONFIGURATION TO DEFAULT SETTINGS..........................................................................................20
13.3.1 Resetting Audio Control Settings.......................................................................................................................20
13.3.2 Resetting Static IP Address................................................................................................................................20
13.3.3 Resetting CobraNet Persistence.........................................................................................................................20
13.4 NETWORK INTERFACE ................................................................................................................................................21
13.4.1 Network Mask Assignment.................................................................................................................................21