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Smart highlevel input
The latest generation of OE car radios incorporates
sophisticated possibilities of diagnosing the con-
nected speakers. If a common signal processor will
be hooked up failure messages and loss of specific
features (e.g. fader function) quite often appears -
but not with the DSP.2.
The new ADEP circuit (Advanced Diagnostics Error
Protection) avoids all these problems without load
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ing the speaker outputs of the OE radio during high
volumes unnecessarily.
Power Save Mode
The Power Save Mode is incorporated in the basic
setup. It allows to significantly reduce the power
consumption of the amplifiers that are connected to
the HELIX DSP.2 once there’s no input signal pres
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ent for more than 60 seconds. Please note that in
many up-to-date cars with “CAN” or any other in-
ternal bus structures it may happen that the radio
remains “invisibly” turned on for up to 45 min. even
after locking and leaving the car! Once the “Power
Save Mode“ is active the remote output and there
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fore the connected amplifiers will be turned off. The
HELIX DSP.2 will reactivate the remote output with
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in a second if a music signal is applied. It is possible
to either modify the turn-off time of 60 sec. or com-
pletely deactivate the “Power Save Mode” via the
DSP PC-Tool software.
Start-Stop capability
The switched power supply of the HELIX DSP.2
assures a constant internal supply voltage even if
the battery’s voltage drops to 6 Volts during engine
crank.
Automatic Digital Signal Detection
Switching from analog input to the digital input is
done automatically as soon as a signal is detected
on the
Optical Input
. This feature can be deacti-
vated in the DSP PC-Tool software. Alternatively
you can use an optional remote control for manual
switching between analog and digital inputs.
Unique Features of the HELIX DSP.2
