Stage boxes

Boxes that hang off a console. AES50 carries 48 channels each way per socket and takes up to three boxes chained; StageConnect shares 32 channels across the whole chain. Repeaters and extenders are in here too — they carry no channels of their own but they do sit in the chain.

Detail	In	Out	Connects by	Notes
Behringer	16	8	ULTRANETAES50	—
Behringer	32	16	AES/EBUULTRANETAES50	—
Behringer	8	8	ULTRANETAES50	ULTRANET hub: two sockets, feeding up to two P16-M mixers
Behringer	16	8	ULTRANETAES50	ULTRANET hub: four sockets, feeding up to four P16-M mixers
Midas	16	8	ADATULTRANETAES50	Midas preamps
Midas	32	16	AES/EBUADATULTRANETAES50	Midas preamps
Midas	8	8	ULTRANETAES50	PoE powered, Midas PRO preamps. Two powered ULTRANET sockets carrying the same 16 channels
Midas	24	—	AES50	—
Midas	—	24	AES50	—
Midas	16	8	AES50	—
Midas	8	16	AES50	—
Midas	8	8	AES/EBUAES50	8 mic preamps plus 8 channels of AES3 each way. Its converter works on the AES3 ports only — it talks to 48 kHz outboard while running at 96, but it does not bridge two AES50 domains
Midas	48	16	AES50	—
Midas	—	—	AES50	Audio System Engine, 7U. Sold as DL371PRO3/PRO6/PRO9 by DSP card count. Its eight AES50 sockets are the ones the PRO Series manual quotes — they belong here, not on the console
Midas	—	—	AES50	4 configurable modes — Eight card slots (A-H) for DL441/442/443/444/452. Four AES50: three system, one N+1 spare
Midas	—	—	AES50	4 configurable modes — Three card slots for DL441/442/443/444/452. Two AES50, the second a duplicate of the first
Midas	24	72	AES50	Active mic splitter, 6U. One mic leaves four ways: digits to FOH and to monitors on two independent AES50 interfaces, and analogue on the A, B and front C outputs
Midas	24	24	AES50	Active mic splitter, 5U. Its 24 outputs switch between splits of the preamps and returns off AES50 — modelled as returns, the behaviour it shares with every other box here. None is transformer-isolated, so it gives no galvanically isolated feed the way a DL431 does
Midas	16	48	AES50	—
Klark Teknik	—	—	AES50	Two-link AES50 repeater on four sockets — AES50 IN 1/2 on the front, OUT 1/2 at the rear — up to 100 m. The two links may run at different rates at once, but nothing crosses between them: this repeats, it does not convert
Klark Teknik	—	—	AES50	Network bridge with sample rate conversion. Three AES50 sockets, each at its own rate, plus one CM-1 module slot for MADI or Dante. This is how a 96 kHz world reaches a 48 kHz one
Klark Teknik	—	—	AES50	AES50 extender and multiplexer, up to 500 m over fibre, sold as a pair
Klark Teknik	—	—	AES50	8 port AES50 extender and multiplexer, up to 1000 m
Midas	8	8	ULTRANETStageConnect	Bus powered, dual ULTRANET outputs
Midas	16	—	ULTRANETStageConnect	Bus powered, dual ULTRANET outputs
Midas	—	16	ULTRANETStageConnect	Bus powered, ULTRANET in and out
Klark Teknik	—	—	StageConnect	4 configurable modes — Bus powered bridge to USB and ULTRANET. No analog connectors of its own
Behringer	—	—	StageConnect	4 configurable modes — Bridge to 32 channels of USB and ULTRANET, split as configured
Behringer	—	—	StageConnect	Range extender. Sits in the chain but carries no channels of its own