Digital Audio Denmark Core 256
Compact digital audio router / interface core
Stagebox / Expander$2,999Manufacturer list price
Specifications
- Type
- Stagebox / Expander
- Description
- Compact digital audio router / interface core
- Topology
- Digital audio router/interface core with internal PRO|MON summing and speaker EQ engine
- Signal path
- Digital
- Channels
- 848
- Channel format
- No native analog I/O; digital-only router/interface core with modular expansion
- Form factor
- rackmount (half-rack, optional 19" bracket for 1-2 units)
- Rack units
- 0.5U (half rack, 1U height)
- Connection
- Thunderbolt 3, Dante, MADI, ADAT, DADlink (optional)
- Sample rate (kHz)
- 44.1-384
- Bit depth
- 28-bit floating point processing
- DSP
- 1,500x1,500 internal router; 512x64 ch. PRO|MON summing and speaker EQ processing
- Powered
- yes
- Power (W)
- 12V DC external power, max 60W
- Introduced
- 2022
Details
I/O: 2x Thunderbolt 3 ports (each w. 15W power), 256 bidirectional channels; Dante (256 ch. at 48kHz, 128 ch. at 96kHz, 64 ch. at 192kHz); MADI/BNC optional, 2x SFP (LC fiber or HD/BNC coax), 64 ch. base / 128 ch. with SFP module; ADAT/Lightpipe (16 ch.); Word Clock I/O
Notable use: FOH mixing, monitor mixing, playback stations, Dolby Atmos post-production, live sound, houses of worship, immersive audio facilities (per DAD marketing copy)
Notes: FLAG device_class: Core 256 is a compact digital audio router/interface core with no native analog I/O, marketed by DAD as 'The Tiny Live Sound Hero'. It does not cleanly fit any listed device_class; chosen 'Stagebox / Expander' as the closest match per task guidance since it functions as a routing/format-conversion hub rather than a discrete converter or audio interface with local I/O. DAD's own page does not list price; range shown is US distributor pricing. Launched at NAB 2022 alongside AX64 under new 'Thunder|Core' technology, per press coverage, not DAD's own page. Country of manufacture not stated on product page.