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| Considering going Vinyl--Please talk me out of it Here is a constructive suggestion. Go to a good high end dealership and challenge them to show you how good vinyl can sound. Listen. Your ears. Then check out how much money you would need to spend, and don't forget the extras like a RCM. Then, yo... | |
| Considering going Vinyl--Please talk me out of it Elizabeth is right...you will go nuts. But you may be a happy nut. Vinyl playing is an expensive hobby that is time-consuming and technically interesting. and quite separate and distinct from simply enjoying music. But that could be said for all a... | |
| Digital Playback Comparison Shadorne...The "Clock" is sometimes embedded in the data, so that no separate clock signal is needed. Check out "Manchester 2" code, one of the first. | |
| A/D input levels with 24-bit - need to max out? Shadorne...It's not just about dynamic range. The size of the digital steps (quantization) is the LSB (Least Significant Bit). Even if a program is loud all the time (little dynamic range) the accuracy with which the digital data represents the an... | |
| A/D input levels with 24-bit - need to max out? Obviously I meant 10 bits, not 19. 9 and 0 are side by side on the keyboard. | |
| A/D input levels with 24-bit - need to max out? Shadorne...As mentioned in another thread I have found that EVERY CD, at some peak signal point, comes within 2 or 3 dB of maximum, but never more (ie: no digital clipping). I'm told that this is no accident, and that when CDs are mastered the sig... | |
| Is RIAA equalisation enough for Phono Stages? My first phono preamp was a Heathkit, and it had separate switch-selectable "Turnover" and "Rolloff". Damn nuisance!Standardization was the right idea. | |
| Is RIAA equalisation enough for Phono Stages? Piedpiper...I agree that unnecessary equalization is a bad idea. Along those lines, I have experimented with a biamplified phono preamp. We (RIAA) go to the trouble of boosting the low frequencies, and then we use a crossover network in our speake... | |
| A/D input levels with 24-bit - need to max out? You may not need to use all 24 bits, but too low an analog signal into an A/D converted can be a problem. You could be using only the lowest 10 bits of your 24 bit hardware, and that would certainly degrade a 16 bit source. The performance of my B... | |
| Is RIAA equalisation enough for Phono Stages? It's called an equalizer.People who distain equalizers conveniently forget the RIAA process.As I have commented before, what vinyl really needs is dynamic equalization, similar to Dolby for mag tape, and actually developed several decades ago by D... | |
| Stereophile Article - Holt telling it like it is. I have several DVDA which I claim do produce the effect of a live performance with frightening accuracy. They are TACET DVDA of classical chamber music where each channel of the multichannel program carries (predominantly) one instrument. The perf... | |
| Smoother bass by running woofer out of phase? Robr45...Absolute phase or not, the woofer and tweeter should be the same. | |
| Smoother bass by running woofer out of phase? I am assuming that BOTH speaker systems are being wired with woofers out of phase.First, some crossover networks, having a 180 degree phase shift between woofer and tweeter, require that the two drivers be connected with opposite electrical phase.... | |
| Manufacturers don't get it. make tubes visible. Furthermore...the chassis ought to be glass, so you can see and gloat over all those expensive capacitors and resistors. Hopefully they don't glow. | |
| What is the best 2-way Magnepan ever made ? Mrtennis...Magnepan claims that the MG1.6 is flat on the high end, and my measurements confirm their claims (at both high and low frequencies). However, they suggest that many recordings have boosted high end so as to compensate for speakers that ... |