Basic Setup - Turtle Beach Audiotron Reference Manual

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Basic Setup

The simplest AudioTron digital music system consists of one PC connected to an AudioTron with
either an HPNA or Ethernet network adapter. In the configuration illustrated below, a PC with an
HPNA or Ethernet interface is connected to the AudioTron. Music is stored on the PC's hard drive
and is available both at the PC and the AudioTron locations.
If this is the only PC in the home, it will most likely be used for other tasks while music is playing.
Therefore, it should be fairly robust or applications running on the PC may slow down as the hard
drive transfers song data to AudioTron via the network connection.
PC with
HPNA interface
HPNA Network Connection
Figure 2 A basic setup can be achieved with a simple HPNA or Ethernet connection.
Medium Setup
In a more sophisticated setup, the network contains several PCs, each with music files. In the
example below, two PCs provide a music library of 1700 songs for AudioTron
scans the network, the location of the songs is transparent, so you won't have to switch between
PCs when accessing the music.
1200 songs
PC with
HPNA interface
Phone
Wire
Phone
Figure 3 AudioTron can access music stored on all of the PCs in your network.
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AudioTron can access a library of more than 30,000 songs, depending on the "tag" data embedded in the
songs, directory structure, and other database information.
AudioTron
HPNA Connection
phone cable
phone cable
Phone
Phone
Jack Jack
500 songs
+
PC with
HPNA interface
Phone
Wire
Phone
Jack
PC with
Ethernet interface
Ethernet
Cat-5 cable
Ethernet Network Connection
= 1700 songs
HPNA Connection
Jack
Analog Phone Line
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AudioTron
Ethernet Connection
Ethernet Hub
Ethernet
Cat-5 cable
1
. Once AudioTron
AudioTron
Phone
Wire
Phone
Jack