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The MAN301 has been brought to you by a great team:

Rolf Anderegg:

base station software, audio controller software

Uli Franke:

Weiss MAN iPad application, base station software

Samuel Groner:

analogue hardware

Jakob Schiesser:

mechanical design, PCB artwork, controller software

Daniel Weiss:

digital hardware, manual

Barbara Elsener:

manufacturing

Claude Gugolz:

manufacturing, QC

Miriam Joos:

manufacturing

Marcel Vogt:

manufacturing, QC

Joschka Weiss:

manufacturing, QC

Yves Marx of Clever & Son:

iPad app concept and artwork

Contact:
Weiss Engineering Ltd.
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8610 Uster, Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 940 20 06
Fax: +41 44 940 22 14
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.weiss-highend.com

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Credits

Summary of Contents for MAN301

Page 1: ...MAN301 Operating Manual WEISS HIGH END AUDIO V 1 2 1...

Page 2: ...ality of the Weiss MAN301 Music Archive Network player system It can be easily tailored to your exact needs This operating manual guides you through the setup and operation of the MAN301 on a step by...

Page 3: ...sts can be plugged into the USB port of the MAN301 for immediate playback The MAN301 fetches the music files from the NAS many for mats supported and feeds the data to the built in D A con verter opti...

Page 4: ...like to see Album track information the MAN301 gets from the Internet no need to connect a NAS storage unit Just read these sections of this manual Chapter 1 Section 2 Configuration 6 Chapter 4 Sectio...

Page 5: ...on the antenna onto the appropriate socket on the back of the unit The antenna can be rotated to the position you like best Usually it is not critical in terms of signal reception MAN301 Quick Start...

Page 6: ...4 10 10 10 10 NAS NAS NAS NAS Tap on the newly created user avatar enter the user password you just generated This leads to the main screen of the app In the menu list on the left there is an entry St...

Page 7: ...301 manual is your friend here are many more functions to discover Remember the MAN301 manual is your friend Enjoy Daniel Weiss MAN301 Quick Start Guide Page 6 Some notes on the iPad Some notes on the...

Page 8: ...ction is highly recommended Of the configurations on the following pages configuration 1 may be the most common but others work equally well In terms of sonic performance there isn t any configuration...

Page 9: ...a Router or a WiFi Router to your system to get a configuration as in Configuration 1 or Configuration 2 above Configuration 4 You have a WiFi Router with Internet access but you would not like to co...

Page 10: ...configuration can be as simple as shown above but option ally it can be used with an Internet connection for fetching the metadata of the Album played I e it then shows the track infor mation and cove...

Page 11: ...lso be WiFi connected to the MAN301 if this is more convenient e g because of limited WiFi reach That then would be Configuration 2 i e proceed to Section 4 in that case After you have wired the syste...

Page 12: ...ee its SSID in the table The SSID of the WiFi router in this example is white Connect to that network You will need to know the password for the router s SSID to connect Once the iPad is connected to...

Page 13: ...on wiggles Then close the app By tapping and holding the finger on one of the MAN301 icons that unit can be made the preferred unit If you tap on the pad the following screen shows up This shows the c...

Page 14: ...ink to a WiFi network active The uplink is disabled in Con figuration 1 as the MAN301 is connected to the Router via an Eth ernet cable The pad enters a setup page for a few very basic setup items If...

Page 15: ...ows to set the MAN301 such that it logs on the most recent user automatically This comes handy if there is only one user set up The main advantage is that the library playlist display is refreshing qu...

Page 16: ...ntry in the Server Preferences is the Audio De vices pad Tapping on it reveals a screen similar to this Here the firmware of the audio device can be updated Audio de vice means the currently active au...

Page 17: ...Sec tion 1 The next entry in the Server Preferences is the BS Crash Auto Submission This allows the BS Base Station MAN301 to report any pro gram bugs to us at Weiss These reports do not contain any p...

Page 18: ...system message The last entry is the Customer Support where it is pos sible to set up a support channel to Weiss Engineering via the Internet Such a channel allows us to analyze your MAN301 and the as...

Page 19: ...301 ac cess point After you have wired the system as shown on the left and all units are powered the next task is to establish a connection be tween the iPad and the MAN301 unit As you see in the conf...

Page 20: ...s MAN301 xxxx_LAN the xxxx denotes the serial number of your MAN301 unit minus 1000 Of course the MAN301 unit has to be switched on in order to appear in the list You will be asked for the password wh...

Page 21: ...on wiggles Then close the app By tapping and holding the finger on one of the MAN301 icons that unit can be made the preferred unit If you tap on the pad the following screen shows up This shows the c...

Page 22: ...link to a WiFi network active The uplink is disabled in Con figuration 2 as the MAN301 is connected to the Router via an Ethernet cable The pad enters a setup page for a few very basic setup items If...

Page 23: ...on allows to set the MAN301 such that it logs on the most recent user automatically This comes handy if there is only one user set up The main advantage is that the library playlist display is refresh...

Page 24: ...rver Preferences is the Audio De vices pad Tapping on it reveals a screen similar to this Here the firmware of the audio device can be updated Audio de vice means the currently active audio interface...

Page 25: ...efore you have read Chapter 6 Sec tion 1 The next entry in the Server Preferences is the BS Crash Auto Submission This allows the BS Base Station MAN301 to report any pro gram bugs to us at Weiss Thes...

Page 26: ...message The last entry is the Customer Support where it is pos sible to set up a support channel to Weiss Engineering via the Internet Such a channel allows us to analyze your MAN301 and the associate...

Page 27: ...301 unit The iPad can later be con nected directly to the WiFi Router if you prefer but for setting up the MAN301 uplink to the WiFi Router the iPad needs to be connected to the MAN301 at first Note I...

Page 28: ...s MAN301 xxxx_LAN the xxxx denotes the serial number of your MAN301 unit minus 1000 Of course the MAN301 unit has to be switched on in order to appear in the list You will be asked for the password wh...

Page 29: ...And or switch off the iPad WiFi and then switch it on again By tapping and holding the finger on one of the MAN301 icons that unit can be made the preferred unit If you tap on the pad the following sc...

Page 30: ...WiFi network active To activate the uplink enter the Preferences menu as described below The uplink will be acti vated for this Configuration 4 The pad enters a setup page for a few very basic setup...

Page 31: ...on allows to set the MAN301 such that it logs on the most recent user automatically This comes handy if there is only one user set up The main advantage is that the library playlist display is refresh...

Page 32: ...elp to switch off the Wi Fi on the iPad and then switch it on again Note it takes some time until the uplink is established for the first time up to minutes After establishing the uplink it is advisab...

Page 33: ...n nected to the Internet to be able to fetch the firmware With the release of a new MAN301 base station software any possible change in the firmware for the MAN301 internal audio device will be automa...

Page 34: ...k like this In this case the MAN301 was not closed properly and thus the databases may be corrupted The MAN301 then restores the data bases No user can log in until the databases are restored The rest...

Page 35: ...The configuration of the customer support is straightforward once required Now that we have done the basic system configuration user accounts can be added This is described in Section 7 34...

Page 36: ...o the MAN301 After you have wired the system as shown on the left and all units are powered the next task is to establish a connection be tween the iPad and the MAN301 unit As you see in the configura...

Page 37: ...s MAN301 xxxx_LAN the xxxx denotes the serial number of your MAN301 unit minus 1000 Of course the MAN301 unit has to be switched on in order to appear in the list You will be asked for the password wh...

Page 38: ...on wiggles Then close the app By tapping and holding the finger on one of the MAN301 icons that unit can be made the preferred unit If you tap on the pad the following screen shows up This shows the c...

Page 39: ...ows whether there is any uplink to a WiFi network active In Configuration 5 the uplink will not be activated The pad enters a setup page for a few very basic setup items If the Preferences pad looks l...

Page 40: ...on allows to set the MAN301 such that it logs on the most recent user automatically This comes handy if there is only one user set up The main advantage is that the library playlist display is refresh...

Page 41: ...factory The next entry in the Server Preferences is the Audio De vices pad Tapping on it reveals a screen similar to this Here the firmware of the audio device can be updated Audio de vice means the c...

Page 42: ...efore you have read Chapter 6 Sec tion 1 The next entry in the Server Preferences is the BS Crash Auto Submission This allows the BS Base Station MAN301 to report any pro gram bugs to us at Weiss Thes...

Page 43: ...message The last entry is the Customer Support where it is pos sible to set up a support channel to Weiss Engineering via the Internet Such a channel allows us to analyze your MAN301 and the associate...

Page 44: ...on s hip hop music by adding the son s folder to his library C There are more than one MAN301 unit the same scenarios as depicted above apply with the difference that family mem bers can enjoy their o...

Page 45: ...new user The default Admin password is wh10admin After you have added the user a default Avatar picture along with the user name you have selected is shown You may add more users any time and also cha...

Page 46: ...may take some pictures with the built in camera not available on the first generation iPad Those are automatically put into the photo roll The other menu items are self explanatory Note A user passwo...

Page 47: ...olds the music files An alternative to the NAS would be e g a USB hard disk connected via USB to the MAN301 We highly recommend to use a NAS unit though with 2 or more drives for data safety Also see...

Page 48: ...erating manual for your NAS Usually there are a lot of different items which can be managed with a NAS but for the purpose of using the NAS as a storage medium for the MAN301 typically only a few basi...

Page 49: ...allows to assemble the music added to the library for a given user Of course in such a case the music files have to be organized in an appropriate way on the NAS For instance it would allow to have f...

Page 50: ...mounted are given The Album drives Data Album Audio Album shown in the list is the Album drive of the MAN301 Once a Album is inserted one of those drives goes online More about this in chapter 4 If I...

Page 51: ...up a new user account The MAN301 now scans the NAS and adds all tracks etc to its library This may take some time minutes up to hours de pending on the size of your music collection The progress of t...

Page 52: ...hout stop ping the playback Log off stops the music playing and logs off the user Shutdown server stops the music playing logs the user off and switches off the MAN301 unit in use The MAN301 has to be...

Page 53: ...uto Scanner when started scans all folders on the NAS and detects folders with lacking artwork If artwork is lacking the scanner attempts to get artwork from the Internet automati cally This is a quic...

Page 54: ...der Cache Prefix defines the name of the artwork file in the cache storage mentioned above The three following entries Source Gracenote Source Mu sicBrainz Source Google allow to select where artwork...

Page 55: ...lso appear in the Artists list This depends on the Album Artist Filter switch though If this switch is set to No the names tagged in the Art ists tags appear in the Artists list If the switch is set t...

Page 56: ...pad to clear the message If all is ok the User Messages window is just empty 5 The General Notice pad reveals a message on various licensing and legal items Now see Chapter 2 for information on the Li...

Page 57: ...e user defined extracts of the Library for quick access to those favorite tracks CHAPTER 2 56 Library Playlists Views The Library View display shows a selection of the li brary as well as the Playlist...

Page 58: ...wait until the library building process has finished Once this is the case tap on the Artists Albums pads on the left hand side At first it may take some time until the library entries are shown on th...

Page 59: ...currently not yet available for usage Available Servers Storage resources which may be available to be mounted for the MAN301 s use The mounting of NAS units or folders on computers is discussed in ch...

Page 60: ...e metadata editor for the selected files The pad allows to insert the selected files tracks in a playlist The pad navigates back to the Storage display The sets the selected folder as the folder where...

Page 61: ...l tracks Then you can navigate one step back again to the initial Artists display Here again add the whole oeuvre of an artist to the Queue The search field in the upper right corner allows for a quic...

Page 62: ...seful when reading a Album just ripped The pad in the lower left corner reveals a vertical bar where you can select a particular album or multiple albums for tag editing metadata editing via the pad s...

Page 63: ...re are so many different genres With the meta data editor built into the MAN301 you are able to change all metadata including the Genres in case you are not happy with certain Genre assignments Web Me...

Page 64: ...Example of a Recently Played list with Artists Albums Tracks se lected for display 63...

Page 65: ...ove in the search field in the upper right corner The display then changes to a similar view as we have seen it with Recently Added the concept of selecting Artists Al bums etc is the same Say we have...

Page 66: ...itle Note that the name has to be exactly written as it appears in the artist meta data One could also write Bob which returns all artists starting with Bob in their name Very useful if the spelling i...

Page 67: ...list of track numbers available in the library Let s select the 1 Now the list only contains the first tracks of the albums performed by Diana Krall This search can now be stored via the pad in the t...

Page 68: ...e then it is possible to extract e g all tracks with conduc tor X orchestra Y on label Z A very powerful feature If the track display is enabled and if you do a search with a completely empty search f...

Page 69: ...here it can not be deleted For setting up your own playlists simply tap on the pad at the bottom of the playlist window and enter a name for the playlist If you now tap on the newly generated playlist...

Page 70: ...tapping on the pad or the pad respectively With a track or several tracks selected the pad reveals this list Edit tags enters the metadata editor Copy to allows to copy the selected tracks to another...

Page 71: ...an be deleted Note that if the current Target playlist is set safe the Target playlist is automatically set to Queue as a playlist set safe does not take tracks anymore The icon to the left of a playl...

Page 72: ...lling of the audio buffer internal to the MAN301 The volume control fader on the lower right can also be moved by tapping on the speaker pads at the left and the right of the faders The pad allows to...

Page 73: ...holding the finger on the artwork opens a window which shows the available artwork and also some more artwork from an Internet artwork fetch For details on this feature see Chapter 4 Section 3 This pr...

Page 74: ...Tapping on the text to the right of the cover art opens a menu as shown above This allows to select how the three lines of text are built 73...

Page 75: ...reen similar to this Further tapping on the reveals a screen like this The pad in the lower right allows to enter the URL of a web stream if the URL is known already or if it has been copied e g from...

Page 76: ...stead as indi cated on the Configuration 4 graphics in Chapter 1 Section 2 The top bar is basically self explanatory The home pad opens the window on the left The arrow pads allow to browse between we...

Page 77: ...an example let s Google for David Byrne Radio and then en ter his website There tap on the PLAY MP3 STREAM link This opens this win dow I e the radio is now streamed via the iPad and you may hear it...

Page 78: ...n allow for a while until it shows up Here you can enter a name for the media link to be added e g in that case we enter e g David Byrne which then shows in the list as shown below Note this label alw...

Page 79: ...ften use such files for their streams here go the streams with extensions like mp3 The media links you add via the web browser are automatically put into the proper section There are sites on the Inte...

Page 80: ...ts a number of digital audio inputs and outputs as well as word clock synchronization facilities The DAC version of the MAN301 in addition has analog outputs on XLR and RCA connectors CHAPTER 3 79 Aud...

Page 81: ...power up the MAN301 unit The fader volume control works in that case as well This vol ume control which obviously is implemented in the digital do main is a properly dithered volume control and thus i...

Page 82: ...back This can be the built in D A Converter or any external D A converter device If you have connected an external D A Converter via USB or Firewire to the MAN301 you may need to select that one inste...

Page 83: ...external D A Converter via Firewire or USB make sure to always adhere to this power up power down sequence Power up Switch on the external DAC switch on the MAN301 Power down Switch off the MAN301 sw...

Page 84: ...In order to understand the MAN301 s output structure this block diagram is helpful Network Player Audio Output fader in player DAC output XLR output RCA output digital volume trim 83...

Page 85: ...the DAC output level is to first have the digital volume trim and the player fader at maximum and then set the analog attenuator such that the level is a bit at the high side of the volume you would...

Page 86: ...trim mute are relevant for both XLR and RCA outputs The Dual Wire Word Clock Half Rate Switch pad se lects the sampling frequency at the BNC word clock output con nector if the Dual Wire Mode is enabl...

Page 87: ...listen at The DAC Filter Type control selects the oversampling filter type in the D A Converter The A type is a steeper filter with less aliasing effects and higher pre echo while the B filter has a g...

Page 88: ...e menu The Audio Device Status opens a window like this This shows the current sampling frequency and synchronization status Now we move to the Synchronization and Rate Mode menus as shown on the foll...

Page 89: ...lock generator connected The entry to the right of the Internal pad shows the currently active sampling frequency and whether the unit is locked to the frequency The locked 44 1 kHz entry in the curre...

Page 90: ...e external sampling frequency generator or the fixed rate sampling frequency generator carefully If in doubt do not change the settings from the default ones The next entry is the Streaming one This a...

Page 91: ...n be set to 44 1kHz or 48kHz The Stream Encoder can be set to mp3 lossy encoding for lowest bit rate or flac lossless encoding for best quality but higher bit rate or to vorbis i e ogg vorbis for loss...

Page 92: ...upwards to open the dialogue Set the blue arrow to the MAN301 on the display in or der to transmit the music to the MAN301 Now play any music source on the iPad via the MAN301 The iPad s volume contr...

Page 93: ...The input source can be selected by tapping on the appropriate input The designation of the input can be changed by tapping and holding on one of the inputs 92...

Page 94: ...elected Fixed Rate Rate Mode this can not be changed due to the MAN301 s hardware architecture Airplay mode Internal Synchronization Transparent Rate Mode Hints to connect external D A Converters D A...

Page 95: ...94...

Page 96: ...synchronized via a word clock input on a BNC connector One has to make sure that the external clock source matches the sampling rate of the track played except for the Fixed Rate mode where a fixed sa...

Page 97: ...fetching and with extensive error reporting A full fledged metadata editor allows to take care of those cases where metadata isn t as perfect as it should be Albums can also be played back without any...

Page 98: ...he Album can be read then it is either recognized as a Album holding files e g MP3 files or as a standard Audio Album In the case of a Album holding files the Data Album entry will come Online and wil...

Page 99: ...as follows Here you can scroll through the track names and also see the cover artwork Actual Album ripping is described in the next section To release the Album from the Album slot press on the pad in...

Page 100: ...he Album can be read then it is either recognized as a Album holding files e g MP3 files or as a standard Audio Album In the case of a Album holding files the Data Album entry will come Online and wil...

Page 101: ...the name of the NAS and probably a folder name if you have ever set that path before usually this is set when mounting the NAS for the first time If you tap on the entry to the right of the Destinatio...

Page 102: ...n template this is similar to the Track tem plate but meant for those Albums designated to be compila tions like e g movie soundtracks label samplers etc The de fault folder for the tracks tagged as C...

Page 103: ...es for metadata and artwork of the specific Album More on this on the next pages With the Metadata sources pad one can se lect the sources which should scanned when a Album is in serted The available...

Page 104: ...d the most appropriate one selected In some cases it may be difficult to judge which one is the best candidate In such cases tap on the pad to enter the next screen and check the metadata entries in d...

Page 105: ...s tem plate allows to enter all the metadata manually Now the tracks to be ripped can be selected with the pads usually all of them are ripped and thus the default has all of them selected Tapping on...

Page 106: ...me also depending on the physical quality of the Album The MAN301 uses the Cdparanoia ripping software which takes care that the Album is ripped in the best way possible After rip ping a report is gen...

Page 107: ...the pad Note it may happen that the ripping progress bar ends at 99 and does not go to 100 This is fine the Album will be ripped completely Also note that after the last track has been ripped it may t...

Page 108: ...s A cache error screen may look like the one shown be low The two yellow dashes indicate the position of the cache er rors during the ripping process This allows to easily check for the integrity of t...

Page 109: ...anual tagging is possible as well of course The operation of the tag editor is explained in the following few tagging examples Example 1 The tag editor loaded with a tagging example a complete al bum...

Page 110: ...can be written to the storage via the pad in the upper right The left right pointing arrows are grey which means there are no candidates for different metadata available right now But if we wait for a...

Page 111: ...acks of the album must be present with their proper start end times etc So TOC candi dates are preferred over Tags candidates which we will see later If we tap on the first track of the candidate the...

Page 112: ...edit buffer via the Apply Can didate pad first As described above But if we like to change some entries like e g the Genre then we scroll the upper window to the Genre entry tap into the Genre bar to...

Page 113: ...tapping on the pad in the lower left or by doing a right swipe in the lower window This reveals a vertical bar on the left Tapping on the selects de selects all tracks at once tapping on the selects d...

Page 114: ...he handle on the right edge of the display The tracks can be moved to any position in the middle window we will later sort them in the proper sequence An alternative way to move the tracks is to selec...

Page 115: ...case because the track number is part of the file path as can be seen when we inspect the file pathes in the middle window e g this one I e the 04 is indicating the track number 4 The track number oft...

Page 116: ...he win dow to Gracenote which then returns a candidate as seen here We see that it has properly identified all tracks and indicates that this data is based on the TOC because we have submitted the dat...

Page 117: ...y and tap and hold the finger on it un til this window appears Then tap on Lo cate on storage This leads to the untagged tracks of one of the albums in the storage browser Memorize the folder name whe...

Page 118: ...e example In the tag editor it looks like this Up to now we are completely clueless what those tracks could be We now try to isolate tracks which could be from the same album like e g the ones having...

Page 119: ...get the tracks we just selected into a separate group Note if the tracks we are about to tag are in separate folders then we can select Group selected tracks by directory and have all folders sepa ra...

Page 120: ...and We now tap on to have the data written to the Edit buffer as seen on the next page Now we tap on to write that data onto our storage de vice and thus have the tracks properly tagged The same proce...

Page 121: ...tries with e g meaning that the data returned by Gracenote is based on the tags we just have en tered The candidates based on Tags have to be carefully scruti nized because it can be that a completely...

Page 122: ...gged We mark all three for tagging and enter the tagging editor which shows this I e all tracks of all three albums in a single window Now the magic grouping function comes to rescue The Group albums...

Page 123: ...After tapping on for each group we end up with nice candidates in each group Writing them to the Edit buffers via gets this And subsequent tapping on writes all three to the 122...

Page 124: ...gging of these three albums has been a piece of cake Now for some words on the fields in the top window An exten sive tagging page looks like this Edit buffer The number of entries may vary with the a...

Page 125: ...The Scope works the same as in the Edit window but here we have Track in addition i e tapping on Track writes that data from the Candidate to the Edit buffer only for that particular track This can b...

Page 126: ...n the Artists list Now for the example In the Artists list we find entries like this Such a sequence may point to an album which is not tagged as a Compilation provided the Compilation Display mention...

Page 127: ...We navigate back to the album folder and select the folder for tagging This opens the tag editor 126...

Page 128: ...tap on Group at the bot tom And select Group albums by directory This opens this win dow Here we can select which ones of the separate tracks we would like to get into the common group In our example...

Page 129: ...rom Gracenote by tapping on The album is found based on the TOC as seen on the right As we can see the candidate has set the Compilation flag as ex pected and the Album Artist tag is filled in with Ma...

Page 130: ...Candidate applied and viewed in Edit buffer ready to be saved 129...

Page 131: ...e to be there as well tap on the Album name and hold the finger until the window appears and then select Locate on storage to see all tracks of that al bum Then tag the complete album as described abo...

Page 132: ...where the scanning can be started Details are given in Chapter 1 Section 7 2 Almost everywhere where the artwork is visible one can tap and hold the finger on the artwork to get to this menu 131...

Page 133: ...Or take a photo of the Album cover with the iPad cam era and integrate that in the artwork file If all these options do not get the proper artwork you may browse the internet via Google by defining yo...

Page 134: ...A few words on the selection of a Network Attached Storage NAS device or a USB hard drive CHAPTER 5 133 Mass Storage...

Page 135: ...o not use storage devices which are connected wirelessly and use a pris tine link between the MAN301 and the NAS i e use Gigabit type routers and switches Note Maybe you consider to use a USB hard dri...

Page 136: ...h four 1TB disks offers a capac ity of 3TB 4 Six to ten hard disks This configuration usually can be oper ated in the RAID6 mode which means that any two of the hard disks can fail at the same time wi...

Page 137: ...ay be advisable to organ ize the collection in several folders e g one folder for each per son or folders with different music styles It is still possible for all persons to access all files via the M...

Page 138: ...nology File System HFS a k a Mac OS Extended Note Journaling should be disabled in order for the MAN301 to access with write permissions Journaling can be changed in the programs utilities disk utilit...

Page 139: ...Updating the MAN301 software connecting other storage devices a word about routers and switches FAQ and more CHAPTER 6 138 System Maintenance...

Page 140: ...01 base station also requires to be updated The Weiss MAN app needs to be downloaded from the app store Tap on this icon on your iPad This connects to the Apple app store Search for Weiss MAN to get t...

Page 141: ...as to be up dated after the update of the MAN301 base station has been done As a side note The entry shows which version of the Weiss MAN app is required to control the new MAN301 firmware You may the...

Page 142: ...ing on the speed of your internet link The MAN301 firmware size is several 100 MByte All your library entries playlists and user accounts will remain intact The download progress is shown with a progr...

Page 143: ...nality in that it simply acts as an Ethernet port ex tender in order to be able to connect additional devices to the network The performance of a setup in terms of data throughput latency etc mainly d...

Page 144: ...es just be patient Once it is about to boot successfully the Album will be ejected Q2 I can t log onto the server the MAN301 unit it says could not connect to logon service A2 On the iPad WiFi setup p...

Page 145: ...latest version Done via the Weiss Firewire I O win dow from a MAC or Windows computer Q5 I experience occasional interrupts when playing music A5 Make sure to use Gigabit 1000M devices for NAS Router...

Page 146: ...This chapter informs on technical data of the MAN301 and also gives in depth information on various topics CHAPTER 7 145 Technical Data Articles...

Page 147: ...it proof output circuitry output impedance 44 2 RCA connec tors DC coupled short circuit proof output circuitry output im pedance 22 The output level is selectable via the iPad 4 set tings are provide...

Page 148: ...r A 0Hz 40kHz within 0 8dB Fs 88 2 kHz Filter B 0Hz 20kHz within 0 25dB Fs 88 2 kHz Filter B 0Hz 40kHz within 1 5dB Fs 176 4 kHz Filter A 0Hz 20kHz within 0 25dB Fs 176 4 kHz Filter A 0Hz 40kHz within...

Page 149: ...loat double m4a alac 44 1 192 kHz 16 32 bit m4a aac 44 1 96 kHz flac 44 1 192 kHz 16 24 bit 32 not tested unknown ogg vorbis wma 44 1 48 kHz wv wavepack 44 1 192 kHz 8 32 bit dsf dsd format with 2 822...

Page 150: ...and 1 So a binary number may look like this 1011 0011 0101 1101 This is a 16 digit or 16 bit binary number the grouping into 4 bit chunks is for bet ter readability The audio samples on a Album are re...

Page 151: ...quantization error can be fully de correlated from the signal This means instead of distortion there is noise The music is undistorted The audio example at the link below is again a 16 bit signal quan...

Page 152: ...ighend ch computerplayback togglingdither mp3 Dithering is used in many disciplines The pictures below show dithering applied when quantizing picture data Original Quantized w o dithering Quantized wi...

Page 153: ...quencies above 20kHz Thus the noise floor in the audio band can be brought down to very low levels well below the 16 Bit noise floor of a Album at the cost that the noise is at a fairly high level at...

Page 154: ...4 Bit would make much more sense After the production process the file can always be converted to DSD if required What is better The discussion whether DSD is better than PCM is moot DSD is another va...

Page 155: ...rtwork controller software Daniel Weiss digital hardware manual Barbara Elsener manufacturing Claude Gugolz manufacturing QC Miriam Joos manufacturing Marcel Vogt manufacturing QC Joschka Weiss manufa...

Page 156: ...Information on the various revisions of the MAN301 software the Weiss MAN app and this manual Information on new features planned CHAPTER 9 155 Software Revisions Information...

Page 157: ...1 r2423 Urgent Initial Release Followup Features CD playback support Offline CD rip support Log on service reliability Critical upgrade fix various bug fixes Known Issues Wifi station may temporarily...

Page 158: ...sion will be available Device hot shut down frontpanel long press button or power cut is not recommended and may result in unrecoverable OS MAN301 base station software 1 0 3 compatible Weiss MAN app...

Page 159: ...sequently be necessary It is highly recommended to powerdown MAN301 device before connecting powered devices to Firewire bus Simultaneous CD playback and ripping results in jumpy CD drive behavior Not...

Page 160: ...s MAN app on iPad V1 1 0 applicable manual 1 0 6 Release Date November 16th 2012 16 50 Release Notes MAN301 Basestation Operating System V1 0 6 r3169 Release Followup Requires iPad App Weiss MAN V1 1...

Page 161: ...p s Reboot button does not react after successful OS upgrade switch You are required to shut down the device manually via the app s shutdown button within log in screen or on device front panel short...

Page 162: ...ability measures Known Issues Wifi station may temporarily bring down LAN AP as long as it s scanning Dis Connecting powering Firewire bus devices during active user sessions can result in corrupted u...

Page 163: ...tem V1 1 2 r4962 Feature Release Requires iPad App Weiss MAN V1 6 0 Features Updated operating system Database Assisted Tagging Enhanced audio backend driver Firmware update support for all Weiss Fire...

Page 164: ...n does not react after successful OS upgrade switch You are required to shut down the device manually via the app s shutdown button within log in screen or on device front panel short press button Aft...

Page 165: ...1 as a preamplifier Audio output stream External synchronization Known Issues Preamp setup may autolock in a muted state Manually switch to different sync rate and wait for autolock to switch back to...

Page 166: ...on of user profile may consequently be necessary It is highly recommended to power down MAN301 device before connecting powered devices to Firewire bus Simultaneous CD playback and ripping re sults in...

Page 167: ...g the lossy compression scheme used by Apple Kind of similar to MP3 Not recommended for highend audio See http en wikipedia org wiki Aac Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Chapter 4 Album Ripping Audio f...

Page 168: ...i di rectly The default SSID of the MAN301 access point is MAN301 xxxx_LAN where xxxx is the serial number of the MAN301 minus 1000 The default password of the MAN301 access point is WeissMAN301 Note...

Page 169: ...ault administrator password is wh10admin Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Chapter 1 System setup Configuration 1 Chapter 1 System setup Configuration 2 Chapter 1 System setup Configuration 4 Chapter 1...

Page 170: ...File Format An uncompressed file format similar to WAV but not com patible See http en wikipedia org wiki Audio_Interchange_File_Format Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Chapter 4 Album Ripping Audio fo...

Page 171: ...ALAC Apple Lossless Audio Coding The Apple variant of FLAC See http en wikipedia org wiki Alac Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Chapter 4 Album Ripping Audio format FLAC Begriff suchen...

Page 172: ...Artwork The CD cover artwork Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Chapter 1 System features and requirements Chapter 1 System architectures Zugeh rige Begri e hierher ziehen Begriff suchen...

Page 173: ...d or compressed in such a way that the utmost of storage capacity is saved at the price of altering the musical information lossy compressed Compression is used to save storage space or save on necess...

Page 174: ...Base station The MAN301 hardware unit Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Zugeh rige Begri e hierher ziehen Begriff suchen...

Page 175: ...CD ripping Designates the process of copying the content of a CD to the storage medium by generating one file per track Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Import destination Begriff suchen...

Page 176: ...ssigned to a single artist because there are several artists tracks pre sent on the CD These can be e g film music or label sampler CDs Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Chapter 2 Library Zugeh rige Beg...

Page 177: ...connected to the network There is only one unit on the network which acts as the DHCP server In a MAN301 network the role of the DHCP server is taken by a router unit or if there is no router present...

Page 178: ...ses two chips i e connectors cables to transfer a stereo 96kHz sig nal one channel per link This format has been standardized by the AES Audio Engineering Society In short it is called dual wire forma...

Page 179: ...Ethernet This denotes a wired network connection Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Chapter 1 System architectures DHCP server Router Begriff suchen...

Page 180: ...Fader Kind of a potentiometer but with a linear geometry In the MAN301 used to control the audio volume Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Zugeh rige Begri e hierher ziehen Begriff suchen...

Page 181: ...FLAC Free Lossless Audio Codec Similar to ALAC but not compatible with ALAC See http en wikipedia org wiki Flac Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Chapter 4 Album Ripping ALAC Audio format Begriff suchen...

Page 182: ...generation The iOS version on the iPad needs to be 5 0 at least Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Chapter 1 System setup Configuration 1 Chapter 1 System setup Configuration 2 Chapter 1 System setup Con...

Page 183: ...Genre A musical style Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Chapter 2 Library Zugeh rige Begri e hierher ziehen Begriff suchen...

Page 184: ...Gracenote A professionally maintained database for metadata artwork and more www gracenote com Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Zugeh rige Begri e hierher ziehen Begriff suchen...

Page 185: ...to read various file formats one of them being the iBooks format for electronic books The MAN301 manual is available in ibooks format preferred or PDF format Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Chapter 1...

Page 186: ...Import destination The folder where newly ripped CD files are stored Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index CD ripping Begriff suchen...

Page 187: ...dress and is assigned to the devices on the network by the DHCP server An IP address may look like 192 168 0 1 The highest possible address is 255 255 255 255 the lowest 0 0 0 0 Thus the maximum numbe...

Page 188: ...MAN301 Base Station The actual MAN301 hardware device Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Chapter 1 System features and requirements Zugeh rige Begri e hierher ziehen Begriff suchen...

Page 189: ...Metadata Also called tags i e the data describing the content of a CD like artist name album name track names cover artwork etc Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Tags Begriff suchen...

Page 190: ...3 MPEG 2 Layer III lossy compression format Not recommended for high end audio See http en wikipedia org wiki Mp3 Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Chapter 4 Album Ripping AAC Audio format Begriff suche...

Page 191: ...PC Musepack lossy audio compression format Not recommended for high end audio See http en wikipedia org wiki Musepack Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Chapter 4 Album Ripping Audio format Begriff suche...

Page 192: ...ry The entire collection of music tracks stored on a single or multiple storage devices Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Chapter 1 System features and requirements Zugeh rige Begri e hierher ziehen Beg...

Page 193: ...ed Storage a storage device typically consisting of one to several hard disks or SSDs which connects to a computer network via one or more Ethernet interfaces Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Ethernet...

Page 194: ...OGG A multimedia container format can contain lossy or lossless audio See http en wikipedia org wiki Ogg Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Chapter 4 Album Ripping Audio format Begriff suchen...

Page 195: ...r generated list of music tracks which are subsequently being played by the MAN301 system Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Chapter 1 System features and requirements Zugeh rige Begri e hierher ziehen B...

Page 196: ...playlist The default playlist in the MAN301 The Queue is used e g for immediate playback from the library Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Chapter 2 Library Zugeh rige Begri e hierher ziehen Begriff s...

Page 197: ...01 NAS to Kind of a star point to build a network Often the router also connects to the Internet offers wireless access WiFi router and acts as a DHCP server Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Chapter 1...

Page 198: ...Hz sig nal one channel per link This format has been standardized by the AES Audio Engineering Society In short it is called dual wire format Older D A converters may still emply that for mat for high...

Page 199: ...compatible with standard disk based magnetic storage devices hard disk The SSDs do not yet achieve the capacity of hard disks The price per bit of storage capacity is higher than that of a hard disk...

Page 200: ...MAN301 xxxx_LAN where xxxx is the serial number of the MAN301 minus 1000 The default password of the MAN301 access point is WeissMAN301 Note upper lower case is important See http en wikipedia org wi...

Page 201: ...Swipe The movement of a finger accross the iPad screen for scrolling etc Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Zugeh rige Begri e hierher ziehen Begriff suchen...

Page 202: ...configurations Various system setups the MAN301 supports See Chapter 1 section 2 of this manual Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Chapter 1 System architectures Zugeh rige Begri e hierher ziehen Begriff...

Page 203: ...Tags Also called metadata i e the data describing the content of a CD like artist name album name track names cover artwork etc Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Metadata Begriff suchen...

Page 204: ...orage devices library playlists etc User accounts can be used to distinguish between actual users or different storage places or different music styles etc Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Chapter 1 Sy...

Page 205: ...udio File Format an uncompressed file format similar to the AIFF format but not compatible See http en wikipedia org wiki Wav Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Chapter 4 Album Ripping AIFF Audio format...

Page 206: ...WiFi This denotes a wireless network connection Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Chapter 1 System architectures Zugeh rige Begri e hierher ziehen Begriff suchen...

Page 207: ...Wireless Uplink The MAN301 is capable to connect to a WiFi access point in order to e g access the Internet Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Access point Begriff suchen...

Page 208: ...quency of the actual sampling rate Used to synchronize external equipment to the MAN301 or to synchronize the MAN301 from an external word clock source Verwandte Glossarbegriffe Index Chapter 3 Audio...

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