Surround sound setup question

[meathman]

Im upgrading my system to surround, and currently use a central station (stereo monitor management hardware) to monitor through. In upgrading to surround , I want to try and stay within a pretty modest budget, so I was looking at the spl 5.1 monitor management system. The downside of this (and most other 5.1 management systems I know of) is that with the spl, I loose all of the headphone and talk-back outputs I so often use when doing stereo mixing and recording.

My question is: Is there some sort of y cable or signal splitter I could get, or any other way to split the signal so I would be able to use the LR speakers with the central station when wanting to monitor or record in stereo, and be able to use the same LR speakers as part of a 5.1 setup when wanting to mix/monitor in 5.1 (not at the same time of course)

The other problem this creates is the ability to manage outputs from my digidesign 192. Since the spl accepts only analog DSUB input, I would have to output into my central station via some kind of digital connection. There isnt a 1/2 dsub, half TRS snake I know of......right?

Thanks in advance.....

[Wellnitz]

Hi meathman,

how about the RTW 30900? With this thing you can route your Centralstation output to an analog input say 7/8 and you can swap this input to your left and right speaker. At the same time you can use the same input for 5.1 monitoring. You also can use the AES/EBU Input for digital monitoring. You can connect a VGA Monitor as a level display etc.

Have a look at http://www.rtw.de/produkte/Sichtgera...ndControl.html

Sorry it´s expensive 6000 €

My 2 cents

Jochen