Upcoming Sennheiser Digital 6000 Series drives for excellence
On 15 November, 2016; Sennheiser announced a new addition to its Professional Wireless Range: The
upcoming Digital 6000 Series of radio microphones that will bring outstanding audio quality and
rock-solid RF wireless transmission to demanding live productions. It will be available from
March 2017.
Tom Vollmers, Product Manager, Sennheiser, said: “With Digital 6000, we have brought the key
benefits of our benchmark Digital 9000 system to a two-channel receiver and associated handheld
and bodypack transmitters. The series is an ideal choice for touring and rental companies, theatre
and musical productions, broadcasting, houses of worship and for high-profile corporate
customers.”
The digital two-channel receiver works across a switching bandwidth of 244 MHz (470 to 714 MHz),
which is covered by three transmitter versions that is 470 – 558 MHz, 550 – 638 MHz and 630 – 718
MHz.
Digital 6000 employs true bit diversity, transmission error correction and additional intelligent
error concealment. Its true bit diversity ensures an efficient reception quality. While switching
diversity and true diversity use the RF signal of a single antenna or the audio signal of a
single reception path, respectively, true bit diversity uses both reception paths and combines
their information content thus creating the optimum signal.
Digital 6000 receivers are fitted with a Link Quality Indicator that ensures the errors can be
detected before any drop-outs occur. For data security, Digital 6000 features switchable AES 256
encryption that is particularly important for conference and corporate use. Its automatic
frequency set-up function and the Wireless Systems Manager control and monitoring software
makes the job of the monitor engineer or dedicated RF engineer easier.
The receiver is fitted with an eye-friendly white OLED display which gives a quick overview of
the RF signal, link quality, audio signal, battery status, frequency and encryption.
Digital 6000 works with standard active and passive UHF antennas, as the frequency-selective
antenna filters are contained in the EM 6000 receiver. Therefore, the existing antenna
infrastructures can continue to be used. Its transmitters use the same high-performance
rechargeable accupacks as the Digital 9000 units. The SKM 6000 handheld transmitter is
fitted with Sennheiser’s standard capsule interface and can therefore be combined with all the
classic microphone heads from the evolution wireless Series, the 2000 Series and also the special
9000 Series heads.
The SK 6000 bodypack provides a high-end solution for wireless instruments such as guitar and bass;
and is ready for use with the Sennheiser clip-on microphones MKE 1 (omni-directional) as well as
the digital-transmission versions of the MKE 2 (omni) and MKE 40 (cardioid).
The L 6000 charger is a 19”/1U device that can be fitted with up to four charging modules, each of
which recharges two bodypack or two handheld batteries, respectively. Three-coloured LEDs on the
front panel give a quick overview of the charging process. As the 6000 Series transmitters are
compatible with the Digital 9000 transmitters, the L 6000 charging unit can also be used for
Digital 9000.
Digital 6000 integrates seamlessly into digital or analogue system infrastructures. The EM 6000
receiver is fitted with a digital AES-3 output, high-quality transformer-balanced analogue XLR-3
outputs and ¼” (6.3 mm) jack outputs. The Dante version of the receiver offers an additional
Amphenol RJ-45 connector for integration into a Dante network. The Digital 6000 Series is
compatible with Digital 9000 in long-range mode; also the 6000 Series transmitters can be used
with the EK 6042 camera receiver.