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Summary of Contents for Beyerdynamic Headzone PRO XT
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Page 1: Operating Instructions
Headzone PRO XT ® OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS Mobile Headphone Monitoring System with virtual 5.1 Reproduction... -
Page 2: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents Important safety information ................4 Application . - Page 3 Table of Contents Using the head tracker ..................34 Troubleshooting .
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Page 4: Important Safety Information
Exemption from liability • beyerdynamic GmbH & Co. KG will not be liable if any damage, injury or accident occurs due to negligent, incorrect or inappropriate operation of the product. Location •... - Page 5 If you connect defective or unsuitable accessories, the equipment could be damaged. Only use connection cables available from or recommended by beyerdynamic. If you use cables you have made up yourself, all claim to warranty is null and void. Maintenance •...
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Page 6: Application
Application / Supplied Components 2. Application Headzone ® PRO XT is a mobile headphones system for professional monitioring with a virtual 5.1 reproduction. Headzone ® has been developed for use in mobile recording applications, broadcast vehicles or for surround studio monitoring. Headzone ®... -
Page 7: The Headzone Technology
Headzone ® Technology The Headzone ® technology 4.1 The idea Headzone ® emerged from the idea of remodelling the effective parameters of an ideal auditory space with a certain loudspeaker set-up (up to 5.1) as convincingly and exactly as possible and to make this available in a compact and lightweight transportable device like an external sound card. -
Page 8: The Virtual Control Room
Headzone ® Technology 4.4 The virtual control room After being able to create “virtual loudspeakers”, the next question will be how to place these loudspeakers in a room, as the actual sound image is composed by the loudspeaker itself and the acoustic characteristics that are added by the room it is standing in. With other words, your “virtual control room”. -
Page 9: Why Head Tracking
Headzone ® Technology 4.5 Why head tracking? 1. Loudspeakers do not move! Loudspeakers are installed at fixed positions within a room and provide a sound impression that is spatially stable. The loudspeaker does not change its position with the listeners’ every movement, but will sometimes be in front of them, next to them or behind them, depending on their movements/position. -
Page 10: Earpatron Hearing Protection
EarPatron Hearing Protection EarPatron Hearing Protection 5.1 Basic Principles of Hearing Protection Background The human hearing is one of the most important and sensitive sense organs. Therefore, hearing protection is essential for people who are exposed to high sound pressure levels for a longer period of time. It is even of existential importance for people who need a good hearing for their profession such as musicians, sound engineers, interpreters or radio moderators. -
Page 11: Headzone Hardware
Headzone ® Hardware Headzone ® hardware 6.1 Base station Front ON/OFF switch Switches power on or off when the device is connected to the mains. Connect the device to the mains before turning it on. Turn the device off before disconnecting it from the mains. Preset buttons By using these buttons you can recall three different system configurations. - Page 12 Headzone ® Hardware Master volume control Master control for the headphone volume. When working with the Headzone ® system, always set the master volume control to minimum and then slightly increase the volume to a decent value. EarPatron noise level LEDs Seven LEDs display the achieved EarPatron noise level in per cent.
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Page 13: Dt 770 Pro Ht / Dt 880 Pro Ht Headphones
Headzone ® Hardware 6.2 DT 770 PRO HT / DT 880 PRO HT Headphones Reset Button Front View Back View • In addition to conventional headphones, the DT 770 PRO HT or DT 880 PRO HT is equipped with a head tracker exciter rail containing the ultrasonic transmitters. -
Page 14: How To Install The Headzone Software - Windows
• Start Windows , log on as Administrator. ® • Insert the Headzone CD-ROM in your drive, and select the “Headzone Pro XT Setup_XP_Vista.exe” file (when using Windows ® ® or Vista32) or the “Headzone Pro XT Setup_2k.exe” file (when using Windows ®... - Page 15 Software - Windows ® 2. Please read the beyerdynamic software license agreement carefully. To accept and continue select “I accept the terms of the license agreement” and select “Next”. 3. Select a destination on your hard drive where you wish the Headzone ®...
- Page 16 Headzone ® Software - Windows ® 4. Select by which name the Headzone ® software is to be listed in your Windows ® “Start Menu”. Continue by selecting “Next”. 5. After the Headzone software control panel has been copied to your PC, the set-up wizard will install the appropriate ASIO and ®...
- Page 17 Headzone ® Software - Windows ® 6. Depending on the Windows ® version you are using, you have to confirm some steps by selecting “Next”. Depending on the version and configuration, your operating system may also require permissions between the individual steps. Please answer them positively.
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Page 18: Software - Mac
Headzone ® Software - MAC How to install the Headzone ® software - MAC 1. Audio drivers • Just connect Headzone ® to your MAC and start working! • There is no need to install any audio drivers as Headzone ®... -
Page 19: How To Use The Headzone
Headzone ® Software Control Panel How to use the Headzone ® software control panel 9.1 General The software control panel is your remote control for the Headzone ® hardware. This means the control panel does not do any audio processing and does not occupy significant CPU capacity of your workstation. By using the software control panel you can control all settings of the Headzone ®... -
Page 20: Room Set-Up
Headzone ® Software Control Panel 9.3 Room set-up 9.3.1 Virtual speaker set-up Within Headzone ® you can easily configure the virtual speaker set-up to meet your personal needs. Click on any of the speaker symbols in the virtual control room and move them to a new position while holding down the mouse button. -
Page 21: Room Settings
Headzone ® Software Control Panel 9.3.2 Room settings Within Headzone ® you can adjust the sonic behaviour of the virtual control room to meet your personal taste or needs, whether you are used to working in large and “wet” control rooms or if you prefer small, “dry” sounding locations. This function goes far beyond normal reverberation and can be considered real modelling of a “reference control room”. -
Page 22: Sound Adaptation
Headzone ® Software Control Panel 9.4 Sound Adaptation With the sound adaptation you can adapt the sound of your Headzone system to your needs or to the sound of an existing monitoring system. For this four parametric equalizers are available. Each of the four equalizers allows setting the parameters frequency , gain and quality... -
Page 23: Volume Controls
Headzone ® Software Control Panel 9.5 Volume controls 9.5.1 Input peak LEDs The input peak LEDs show if an input stream is close to saturating one Headzone ® input. The LED will light up when there is less than 6dB of headroom left. If at least one input peak LED responds, the currently active input select LED on the front of the Headzone ®... -
Page 24: Muting Channels
Headzone ® Software Control Panel 9.5.4 Muting channels The “Mute” tick boxes for all surround channels have the same function as setting channel volumes to zero, but then allow muting and unmuting of channels without losing the volume fader settings. All mute tick boxes’ settings will be stored within the hardware and are still available when you use Headzone ®... -
Page 25: Control / Status Panel
Headzone ® Software Control Panel 9.6 Control / status panel 9.6.1 Bypass processing Although Headzone ® is designed to simulate a virtual 5.1 control room, there may be situations where you want Headzone ® operate like a “normal” headphones amplifier when checking a stereo mix or a CD. By clicking the “Bypass processing” tick box all processing (including head tracking) is deactivated and a stereo downmix of all surround signals is put out. -
Page 26: Selecting An Audio Input
Headzone ® Software Control Panel 9.6.3 Selecting an audio input By selecting the option “Audio input” control you can choose between the analogue (Sub D) or digital Firewire IEEE1394 and AES/EBU audio inputs on the rear of the Headzone ® base. -
Page 27: Com Channel Ducking
Headzone ® Software Control Panel 9.6.8 Com Channel Ducking The ducking function for the Com channel can be activated by selecting the Ducking tick box . This function provides a better understanding via the Com channel. If the Com signal exceeds the ducking threshold value , the remaining audio signal is attenuated by the value which has been entered in the “Thresh”... -
Page 28: Extended Settings
Headzone ® Software Control Panel 9.7 Extended settings 9.7.1 Opening the ASIO driver control panel For changing the settings of the Headzone ® ASIO driver, select the “Advanced” tab on the Headzone ® software control panel and click on the “ASIO Settings… “ button. A new window will open for the Headzone ®... -
Page 29: Password Protection
“OK” button. Now the limiter can be configured again. Note: Never forget the password! The limiter can only be turned on or off when entering the correct password. Should you forget the password, please contact the beyerdynamic service. 9.7.4 Firmware updates Please refer to chapter 9.9 “Firmware updates”... -
Page 30: Storing And Loading Set-Ups
Headzone ® Software Control Panel 9.8 Storing and loading set-ups Within the Headzone software control panel you can save and load different set-ups of your system. This comes in handy when you ® have to switch between different virtual loudspeaker and room set-ups or when different people use the same Headzone hardware ®... -
Page 31: Firmware Updates
As Headzone uses the native Core Audio drivers of Mac OSX, updates of these drivers will not be available from beyerdynamic, but ® are part of the regular OSX updates provided by Apple. - Page 32 Headzone ® Software Control Panel 4. After loading a DSP update file, the Headzone ® software control panel will signalise when it is ready to transfer the new firmware to your base station. As the update of the Headzone ® DSP firmware can take up to 30 minutes we recommend to disable screensavers or automatic “standby”, “sleep”...
- Page 33 Headzone ® Software Control Panel 6. When the firmware upload is finished, the Headtracker LED on the front panel of your Headzone ® base station will stop blinking red and you will be asked to restart the software control panel and your hardware. To restart your hardware, please turn it off and on again by using the power switch on the front panel.
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Page 34: Using The Head Tracker
Head Tracker 10. Using the head tracker Headzone ® uses unique, patented, ultrasonic head-tracking technology to make the virtual surround reproduction as realistic as possible. As ultrasonic signals always require a transmitter and receiver, the headtracking system consists of two components: the ultrasonic exciters mounted on the DT 770 PRO or DT880 PRO and the Headzone ®... -
Page 35: Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting 11. Troubleshooting To restore the factory settings of your Headzone ® device, do the following: • Close the application software that uses Headzone ® as audio device. • Turn off the Headzone ® base station • Press and hold the “Bypass” and “Input Select”... - Page 36 Troubleshooting Problem Possible Cause Solution Virtual audio sources seem to move while Scale of the head tracker compensation Adjust the scale of the head tracker turning your head does not match your personal perception compensation according to your needs (see chapter 9.6.6 “Viewing and customising the head tracker”).
- Page 37 Troubleshooting Problem Possible Cause Solution Audio on the front channels is turned Some older audio players for Windows ® You can check the behaviour of your down although all sliders in the software just level the volume on the L/R channels Windows ®...
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Page 38: Technical Specifications
Technical Specifications 12. Technical specifications General Permissible ambient temperature ......+10 °C to +40 °C at < 90% humidity Overall dimensions base station (W x H x D). -
Page 39: Measured Audio Values
Measured Audio Values Supported surround standard Headzone ® follows the ITU-775 standards for surround set-ups. Please use the table below to properly set up your playback device. Ch. No. ITU-775 Label in Headzone ® Label in Headzone ® Core Audio Driver ASIO Driver Left Front Out 01... -
Page 40: Block Diagram
Block Diagram 14. Block diagram Overview - 40 -... - Page 41 Block Diagram Signal Processing - 41 -...
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Page 42: Sub-D Pin Assignment
Sub-D Pin Assignment 15. Sub-D pin assignment - 42 -... -
Page 43: Ec-Declaration Of Conformity
Type of Equipment: Surround Sound Headphone System Model Numbers: Headzone PRO XT ® I, the undersigned, as an employee of beyerdynamic, hereby declare that the equipment specified conforms to the above Directive and Standards. Manufacturer’s Signature: Full Name: Ulrich Roth Date:... -
Page 44: Fc Declaration Of Conformity
Type of Equ i pm ent: Surr o und S ound H eadphone Syst em M odel Num bers : Headzone Pro XT C l assi f i cat i on: C l ass B D i gi t al D evi ce... -
Page 45: Contact
Contact Germany beyerdynamic GmbH & Co. KG Theresienstr. 8 D-74072 Heilbronn Phone +49 (0) 7131 / 617-410 +49 (0) 7131 / 617-299 proaudio@beyerdynamic.de www.beyerdynamic.de For further distributors worldwide, please go to www.beyerdynamic.com - 45 -... - Page 46 Theresienstr. 8 | 74072 Heilbronn – Germany Tel. +49 (0) 7131 / 617 - 0 | Fax +49 (0) 7131 / 617 - 204 info@beyerdynamic.de | www.beyerdynamic.com Weitere Vertriebspartner weltweit finden Sie unter www.beyerdynamic.com For further distributors worldwide, please go to www.beyerdynamic.com...