eldartford
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| Using CD player without Preamp? Kr4...There you said it!! "If the VC is digital (and, therefore, loses data when attenuated)...". Maybe you could explain how data is lost. It doesn't have to be so.If the data was left shifted the LSB would indeed be lost, but the remaining bits ... | |
| Rain-X as CD Enhancement Treatment Tbg...."Zero errors" means exactly that. The copied digital file is an exact duplicate of the original. Science is sometimes proven wrong when it extends into new areas. Not often, but frequently enough to provide ammunition for debates like this.... | |
| Rain-X as CD Enhancement Treatment Tbg...Yes, but all you would prove is that each disc was copied without error, but they could be different discs.What is needed is software that will compare two files that have been read into the computer as you suggest, one file before disc trea... | |
| Rain-X as CD Enhancement Treatment Agreed this is a very civil discussion. By the way, my idea for a bit-by-bit comparison of digital files was not to suggest that such a test would have anything to do with sonic quality, which is a subjective thing. I look on such a test as a pre-... | |
| Preamp gain question Of course the real problem is too much gain in the phono preamp stage. Attenuation should be done there, not at the output. Some preamps can have their gain easily adjusted with a jumper. If your preamp does not have jumper provision for gain adju... | |
| Rain-X as CD Enhancement Treatment Douglas_schroeder and Tbg...Note my words..." but this kind of comparison is difficult, and highly subjective...". Implied here is that there might have been a change (improvement?) but if so it was not great enough for me to notice vs what I hear... | |
| Subsonic Rumble Solutions Ptmconsulting... Your "beautiful analogue signal" has probably been generated out of a digital mixing consile :-( | |
| Company loyalty- What has been your favorite? Dyna-Kit, later Dynaco, of fond memory. Those were the days when a poor college kid could afford a SOTA system. | |
| Preamp gain question Magfan...All volume control pots these days are log taper. Linear would give ridiculous results. Actually, Log taper is a poor substitute for Audio taper which was used in the good old days. Evidently the low demand for Audio taper pots caused man... | |
| Best Audio DVD Universal Player Arcam, Denon...? I just got an Oppo 980H because my Denon 2900 with mods needs repair. $169.00 plus shipping. It is frighteningly good! If your need is audio, and video is of less importance, the 980H is actually preferable to the 983H, at least that's what Oppo t... | |
| Subsonic Rumble Solutions Rumble, due to turntable vibration or recorded in the vinyl has always been my second gripe about LPs, the first being HF surface noise. CDs have taken care of this problem.Imagine my surprise to get a CD of theatre organ music (from Organ Stop Pi... | |
| CD player connected directly to Amplifier? Stanwal...You say... "If the player was made to drive a power amp directly..."How do you do that? The output stage of any audio equipment like a cd player is designed to drive some input impedance of the next equipment. If you check I think you wi... | |
| Rain-X as CD Enhancement Treatment OK. I did the test.First of all I connected my CD player directly to one of my Behringer DEQ2496. The 2496 logs the peak signal level over the course of a complete CD. I made the hookup directly so that there was no gain control in the signal path... | |
| Subsonic Rumble Solutions Acoustat6...What you describe is ideal. All we could quibble about is the frequencies. | |
| Basic electrical questions. Sorry to rain on the parade, but I have been unable to find any evidence of RFI interference with my audio system. I do live in a rural area where the RF energy is probably lower than in cities. However, I have tried activating cordless phones and... |