Cadac Digital CDC Series: Sub-0.4ms Latency, British Analogue Heritage & MegaCOMMS

From the golden age of Broadway and West End musicals (Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Lion King), Cadac was the undisputed acoustic crown jewel of theatrical sound design. When Cadac transitioned to the digital realm with the **CDC Series (CDC seven-s, CDC six, CDC five)**, they prioritized an acoustic benchmark that other manufacturers ignored: Sub-0.4 millisecond ultra-low system latency and pure analog-modeled British summing.

1. The Latency Benchmark: Sub-0.4ms Analog-to-Analog

In musical theatre and high-end classical concert sound, comb filtering caused by digital conversion latency (typically 1.5ms to 3ms on standard digital desks) blurs speech intelligibility and ruins vocal imaging. Cadac's **proprietary DSP architecture achieves a total through-system latency of less than 0.4 milliseconds (sub-400μs) at 96 kHz**, completely indistinguishable from an analog console.

2. The MegaCOMMS High-Definition Network Backbone

• 3,072 Audio Channels: MegaCOMMS transports up to **3,072 channels of 24-bit 96 kHz audio** over coaxial cables (up to 150m) or optical fiber (up to 2km).
• Phase-Aligned Crossovers: Proprietary 4th-order linear-phase algorithms ensure that no matter how complex the matrix routing is, all outputs arrive at the line array processors in perfect phase alignment.

3. Cadac CDC Product Lineup & System Catalog

(Monitor Engineers: Check your stage feedback frequencies with our Real-Time Analyzer Tool).