eldartford
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| Where to get FM/AM antenna? FM and AM antenna are different. The receiver may have a built-in AM antenna. | |
| TAS Recommended CD Tweak…. Shadorne...Yes. If the error correction can't hack it data is interpolated. Not the greatest, but preferable to aborting the disc if it happens once or twice. I didn't mention that because it clouds the issue, and it ain't supposed to happen unles... | |
| TAS Recommended CD Tweak…. Racamuti...Error correcting codes are really interesting, and much more widespread than you might think. IMHO the most dramatic example is in the transmission of data from distant space probes using tiny transmitter power. For example, transmissio... | |
| TAS Recommended CD Tweak…. Racamuti...When a CD experiences a data reading error it does not just fill in with average of adjacent data. (This is a common misconception). The CD is encoded with a CRC error correcting code so that the garbled data is recovered as if it had n... | |
| TAS Recommended CD Tweak…. I would like to see a bit-for-bit comparison. If the bits are the same RH was fooled. | |
| Best Benny Goodman recordings Audphile1...Amazon.com has a CD set titled Carnegie Hall Concert with the same cover art as the LP set. But I don't know if the music is from the original recordings made in Carnegie, or from the broadcast recordings. The CD has a spoken introduct... | |
| Best Benny Goodman recordings Further reading of the liner notes reveals another reason why the Broadcast recordings are better. The Carnegie Hall concert was recorded with one microphone hung way up in the ceiling. It was not planned to use the recording for a record release ... | |
| faint precession of sound on vinyl Rwwear...I take your point about rewinding the tape, although I don't see how this would erase any print=through.However, whichever way the tape is wound the first few seconds of music will be next to the second few seconds, and print-through will... | |
| Best DIY tweak? Hifisoundguy...Why not wrap your d**k with Teflon tape and let us know how it affects the experience. | |
| Best Benny Goodman recordings Carnegie Hall Concert....Columbia set SL160Broadcast recordings....Columbia set SL180From the liner notes...These recordings are made from "air checks" of late evening broadcasts from all over the country. Most of the original discs were taken off... | |
| faint precession of sound on vinyl Deaf_j...The playback stylus does not "read the adjacent wall". It is reading its current groove, but that groove was corrupted by the adjacent groove when the record was cut.As to which channel is affected...it is horizontal groove modulation (mo... | |
| How do you explain slow/lazy sound? Rwwear...Rise and fall times of all amps are much much shorter than loudspeaker response times. | |
| Impedance question The purpose of the audio output transformer, which has taps for 4, 8, and sometimes 16 ohms, is to make all these loads look the same to the output tubes. | |
| faint precession of sound on vinyl Rwwear...I didn't know that. Can you explain how this helps. | |
| faint precession of sound on vinyl It is almost always groove-to-groove interference. This is easily verified by timing the amount of pre-echo. If it's 1.8 seconds it is a LP problem. Mag tape print-through is also real, but usually requires storage of the tape for years without re... |