{"id":2629,"date":"2020-01-03T18:31:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T01:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qsc.com\/systems\/2020\/01\/03\/looks-can-be-deceiving\/"},"modified":"2022-07-09T13:59:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T20:59:15","slug":"looks-can-be-deceiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qsc.com\/systems\/es\/2020\/01\/03\/looks-can-be-deceiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Looks Can Be Deceiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qsc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/Dataport_white_bigger-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"Dataport_white_bigger\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-48\">It may look like any old VGA video connector, but it\u2019s not.  DCA and ISA Series amplifiers and DCP, DCM, and DXP processors use a special QSC connection interface called DataPort, which enables DSP crossovers, speaker-specific EQ, and monitoring and control of amplifier and loudspeaker functions on a single cable. Although many off-the-shelf VGA cables may work with satisfactory results, the QSC DataPort specification requires that all 15 pin conductors be present and that all audio I\/O conductors be shielded. Many VGA cables use only 7 pins.  If pins 5 or 10 are tied to ground, damage to amplifier may result. Therefore, only QSC supplied DataPort cables should be used.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may look like any old VGA video connector, but it\u2019s not. DCA and ISA Series amplifiers and DCP, DCM, and DXP processors use a special QSC connection interface called DataPort, which enables DSP crossovers, speaker-specific EQ, and monitoring and control of amplifier and loudspeaker functions on a single cable. Although many off-the-shelf VGA cables &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qsc.com\/systems\/es\/2020\/01\/03\/looks-can-be-deceiving\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"coauthors":[58],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Looks Can Be Deceiving - Q-SYS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qsc.com\/systems\/es\/2020\/01\/03\/looks-can-be-deceiving\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Looks Can Be Deceiving - Q-SYS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It may look like any old VGA video connector, but it\u2019s not. 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