3160 CDP

Soul of Sound 3160 CDP

Protection should remain unheard.

The 3160 CDP, short for Compression Driver Protection, sits between amplifier and compression driver.

Its job is simple: keep DC away from the drivers, then get out of the way.

Built for the mid and high-frequency sections of the 4360, it is there for the moment something goes wrong at the amplifier output. For everything that happens before that moment, it should simply disappear.

Under normal conditions, there should be nothing to hear.

Some drivers can be repaired or replaced. Others are too costly, too rare, or simply no longer made.

The 3160 CDP was built for the latter. In the 4360 system, the mid and high-frequency drivers are the parts you least want to risk. A fault at the amplifier output can damage them before there is time to react.

So the 3160 sits directly in their signal paths, waiting for the one thing that should never arrive there — DC.

No protection can make a driver invulnerable. The 3160 cannot guarantee survival. It can only improve the odds.

A small box for something that is difficult to replace.

Soul of Sound 3160 CDP

Two paths. One rule.

Mid and high remain entirely separate. Each signal enters, passes through the 3160 and leaves for its driver.

Music should pass. DC should not.

There is very little more to say about what happens inside. That is part of the idea.
A boundary in the signal path, waiting for something that should never arrive.

Soul of Sound 3160 CDP

The panel tells the whole story.

MID. HIGH. Input. Output. Nothing concealed, nothing embellished.

The 3160 is not there to improve the signal. It is there to keep something unwanted from reaching what comes next.

Most of the time, it has nothing to do. That is exactly how it should be.