Allen & Heath ME-U

10-Port Monitor Hub for ME-1
Overview

The ME Personal Mixing System is auniquely flexible yet intuitively easy to operate solution giving individual musicians, performers and presenters the freedom to control theirown monitor sound on stage.

 ME-U is a touring grade, 10 port PoE hub for use with Allen & Heath ME-1 personal mixers. It provides power and up to 40 channels of audio to connect to multiple ME-1 mixers. ME-U comes with a standard input card to interface with Allen & Heath digital mixers or Aviom® A-Net® sources. This card can be replaced with an option card to interface the ME with third party mixing systems via Dante, MADI, Waves SoundGrid or EtherSound.

ME-1 is a stand-alone digital personal mixer receiving up to 40 sources via a single Cat5 cable from the main console and mixing these to a stereo and mono output to drive headphones, in-ears, loudspeakers or other monitoring devices.

Connecting mixers in series - ME-1 can be daisy chained where the Link Output of one feeds the Link Input of the next. Any number can be connected in this way. Each mixer requires its own power unit.
Connecting mixers in parallel - ME-1 can also be connected in parallel where each has its own cable back to an Ethernet switch (hub) which connects to the source. Advantages are that unplugging one cable does not affect other mixers, and that each mixer can get its power via its Cat5 link cable if the hub provides PoE (power over Ethernet). You can use a standard Ethernet switch or the dedicated ME-U Personal Mixer Hub.

Features

10 ports with locking Ethercon connectors
Daisy chain for more outputs – up to 19 ME-1s with 2 hubs
Each port provides power + 40 audio sources to connected ME-1s
Touring grade build quality
2U rack or desk mounting
Multi-purpose Network port:
– Connect PC or Mac for ‘web page’ setup of unit name and IP address, and manual entry of channel names
– Connect iLive AH-Net network to pick up channel names automatically from an iLive system

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Specifications

Input    Card option slot, 40 channels

48 kHz digital audio

ME-D (dSNAKE, ACE, Aviom) card provided

Aviom A-Net16 compatible, 16 channels

M-Dante network card option available

M-MADI card option available

M-ES EtherSound card option available

Output   10 ports

Compatible with ME mixers

Locking EtherCon connectors

PoE available on all output ports

Network   Port: Ethernet TCP/IP

System setup and receiving iLive channel data

Setup    Uses PC or Mac web browser

Received or manual channel names

Received or manual odd/even stereo links

iLive mode for receiving iLive names/links

Change TCP/IP address

IP Addresses Default: 192.168.1.40

Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway: 192.168.1.254

Power 100-240 V AC, 47-63 Hz, 250 W

PoE Capable Ports   15 W at each ME-U output

Dimensions  19 x 10 x 3.6" (483 x 253 x 92 mm)

Weight 10.1 lb (4.6 kg)