TrueMatch® Reference Microphone Converter – Stage Tec’s high-end A/D converter for accurate and optimum sound imaging features an excellent 28-bit resolution and a dynamic range of 153 dB (A) with sample rates of up to 96 KHz (version-dependent).

Microphones are connected straight to the TrueMatch RMC – the use of conventional analog microphone preamps and A/D converters has become a matter of the past. Our patented TrueMatch conversion technology shows a lower digital noise floor than the thermal noise of any microphone: at last, it is the microphone that determines the sound – not the preamp or the converter.

Further, the outstanding resolution of the conversion technology employed with the TrueMatch RMC allows for using the input noise of the microphone as »natural« dithering and for avoiding quantization noise while the TrueMatch RMC itself does affect the sound in no respect.

No existing A/D-converter circuit is perfect; however, thanks to the TrueMatch system, which constantly traces and eliminates all circuit-related inaccuracies, the TrueMatch RMC produces a perfectly linear result.

The large dynamic range provides for processing all conventional analog studio signals between -128…+22 dBu, with no need for enabling a PAD function. Clipping of microphone as well as line signals is virtually impossible. This makes live recording safe and simple.

The TrueMatch RMC standalone converter can be supplied with the most versatile output formats:

AES/EBU, S/PDIF, ADAT, TDIF, Y2, or MADI. There is another version that features 24-bit line inputs, thus introducing the TrueMatch technology in areas where only line-level signals are present.

The TrueMatch technology is not only available with the TrueMatch RMC but also with the NEXUS routing system and the CANTUS mixing-console system by Stage Tec.