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Qu-5/6/7. Connections

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Power

IEC connection

Main power connection with power on/off switch.

Use the ‘P-Clip’ to secure mains power cable where required.

 

Local Inputs

Combi Inputs

Balanced XLR (1-Ground, 2-Hot/Positive, 3-Cold/Negative)

Or ¼” TRS Jack (Tip-Hot/Positive, Ring-Cold/Negative, Sleeve-Ground)

Recallable preamp with +60dB gain, fixed -20dB pad on TRS input, phantom power supplied to XLR connection only.

Talkback

Balanced XLR (1-Ground, 2-Hot/Positive, 3-Cold/Negative)

Recallable preamp with +60dB gain and phantom power.

Patchable to input processing channels.

Stereo Line Inputs

2x ¼” TRS Jack (Tip-Hot/Positive, Ring-Cold/Negative, Sleeve-Ground)

Normalled (L/M, R), connect mono signals to left socket only. Digital trim available in processing channel.

 

Local Outputs

XLR Line Outputs

Balanced XLR (1-Ground, 2-Hot/Positive, 3-Cold/Negative)

Nominal +4dBu output (when output meter displays 0dB)

TRS Line Outputs

Balanced ¼” TRS Jack (Tip-Hot/Positive, Ring-Cold/Negative, Sleeve-Ground)

Nominal +4dBu output (when output meter displays 0dB)

AES Digital Output

Stereo digital output on XLR for use with 110-ohm balanced cables.

Headphone

Stereo ¼” TRS Jack (Tip-Left, Ring-Right, Sleeve-Ground).

Recallable digital trim control.

 

etherCON RJ45 port for expanding the Qu using the Allen & Heath Everything I/O range of expanders. Mode automatically switches between dSnake/ME, DX and gigaACE/GX protocols.
Protocol Sample Rate Max Input Sockets Max Output Sockets
dSnake/ME 48kHz 40 20 (+40 ME)
DX 96kHz 32 32
gigaACE/GX 96kHz 128 128

ⓘ SLink does not support multiple protocols on a single connection.

ⓘ Connecting expanders increases the number of available input and output sockets in the system, it does not change the number of input or mix processing channels available.

 

Dante (Qu-5D, Qu-6D, Qu-7D only)

Dante multichannel audio networking port

etherCON RJ45 port for connecting the Qu to a Dante network, or directly to other Dante enabled equipment.

Includes preamp control when used with Allen & Heath DT expanders.

16x16 channels of audio at 48kHz or 96kHz.

 

USB and SD Card

USB-A

(Qu as host, for audio and data storage and recall)
Conforms to USB 2.0 standard. Use FAT32 formatted drives.

USB-C

(Qu as client, for audio and MIDI).
Conforms to USB 2.0 standard. Class compliant USB and MIDI interface. Driver for Windows available from www.allen-heath.com/resources

SDHC

Full size SD card slot.
Use SDHC, up to 32GB, UHS-I, Class 10.

 

Network

RJ45 Network port

This is used to connect the Qu to a wireless router, access point, local area network or directly to a device, allowing the Qu to transmit and receive control data. For use with Allen & Heath Qu apps, and for MIDI over TCP/IP.

 

Footswitch

Mono (TS) or Dual (TRS) ¼” Jack

Can be calibrated for use with momentary or latching switches.