LA-5300 Broadcast Audio Processor

Congratulations on your purchase of the Linear Acoustic LA-5300 Broadcast Audio Processor.

The LA-5300 provides everything broadcasters need to be ready for NEXTGEN TV/ATSC 3.0 audio in a single, compact, integrated package, including:

  • Dolby® AC-4 encoding from PCM

  • Transcoding from Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus to Dolby AC-4

  • Dolby AC-4 decoding for audience measurement watermarking and bitstream analysis and monitoring

  • Linear Acoustic UPMAX® ISC upmixing

  • Optional Verance and Nielsen watermarking

  • Loudness control via Dolby Real-Time Loudness Leveler (when encoding to Dolby AC-4)

Optionally, it also provides processing for a second legacy ATSC 1.0 program, including:

  • Dolby® Digital Plus (E-AC-3) and Dolby Digital (AC-3) encoding

  • Linear Acoustic UPMAX® ISC upmixing

  • Optional Verance and Nielsen watermarking

  • Loudness control via Linear Acoustic APTO® or Dolby Real-Time Loudness Leveler

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