eldartford
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| Is analog & vinyl anoying? Is it worht it. Shadorne...Yes, interpolation is a fall-back method which is just an alternative to aborting. The R/S algorithm used for CDs will only fail for very severe damage. It is not intended that interpolation should occur for any significant length of ti... | |
| added amp...now hiss from spkr's Mnnc...Yes, the little horseshoe means "ohms". 1K ohms means 1,000 ohms. This is quite high. Many tube preamps run about 600 ohms, which is OK for input to most tube amplifiers, but not the greatest for SS amps. Solid state preamps usually run 50 ... | |
| added amp...now hiss from spkr's Connect it to the amp which makes noise. See if the noise goes away when you short its input. Does your reciever have a spec for the output impedance of its pre-outs? 50 ohms or less would be nice. | |
| Is analog & vinyl anoying? Is it worht it. Shineola was a brand of shoe polish. I don't know if they make it any more. It was brown, and had the consistency of you know what.Do people who have skipping CDs clean them a lot, or does cleaning CDs a lot cause them to skip? | |
| Is analog & vinyl anoying? Is it worht it. I really question the need to clean CDs. Except for a few with obvious major defects I have never had one skip. People who clean their CDs as if they were LPs seem to have a lot of problems. Draw your own conclusion. The error correcting encoding ... | |
| Turntable Pre-Echo Sound....? Shadorne...I agree that "higher noise floor" is a better description than "distortion". It can and is controlled by cutting technique to a level which is inaudible except during silent grooves. I doubt that anyone tries to make it better than inau... | |
| added amp...now hiss from spkr's Mnnc...One way would be to plug in an interconnect, and then, at the other end, short the center pin to the body of the rca connector. "Short" means touch something metal (like a screwdriver) to both parts. By the way I notice that you are using a... | |
| "Is that a record??? " "Valves" John. "Valves". | |
| Turntable Pre-Echo Sound....? You can only hear pre-echo during a silent groove, but it actually goes on throughout the LP, and constitutes a form of distortion. | |
| added amp...now hiss from spkr's "Hiss" and "static" have nothing to do with AC power cords and the like, which can cause hum. You are probably hearing a characteristic of the amp electronics. Since all channels of this multichannel amp have the problem it probably means that the... | |
| Is analog & vinyl anoying? Is it worht it. Viridian...I agree that it is astonishing that a mechanical media like a vinyl LP can sound so good. With some dynamic equalization (instead of the fixed RIAA curve) it can be as quiet as a CD, and with reduced distortion. (This was the DBX LP sys... | |
| Is analog & vinyl anoying? Is it worht it. Viridian...Some recent tests that I ran on my humble phono system (Shure v15mr) suggests that, to my surprise, some signal up to 35 KHz does actually exist on some records, (at a very low level) so I won't contest your suggestion that 45KHz is pos... | |
| Do your music genre choices change w/ the seasons? My choice of music depends on whether my wife is home or not. | |
| How do you determine how much to spend on speakers I am in general agreement with Shadorne but there are some special cases. One that I am familiar with is Maggies, where a pair of MG1.6, for example, fit well with electronics costing four or five times as much (and that is not including vinyl pla... | |
| Life after Maggies? Your objection to the sound quality of the DEQ2496 is interesting. I have no such problem with mine. However, I have found that it helps to have the line level signal into the DEQ2496 a good deal higher than typical of consumer audio equipment. Wh... |