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| Pet Sounds:why CD mono version is so noisy? Many original analog tape recordings have a certain degree of hiss that is quite noticeable. Prior to the 1980's almost all recordings were taped on analog open reel and the original Dolby hiss reduction wasn't used until the late 1960's and early... | |
| Three questions on upsampling You might want to read the various white papers Dan Lavry has written concerning sampling, oversampling, jitter and other digital subjects. Very educational. Check out the support area of http://www.lavryengineering.com. | |
| What do the different tube amp types mean? Way too much to ask from a single reply. (Remember Google is your friend.) But here is a very quick & dirty response. SET = single ended triode. A tube amp with only one output tube per channel that handles both the + and - sides of the wavefo... | |
| new to tubes If the amp has KT88s in it, you can directly substitute the 6550s but be careful about using the EL34s. You didn't say what model amp you have but the EL34 tube usually requires a little circuit modification if you want to use it. Follow the manuf... | |
| Converting tapes to digital You want the "line out" from your cassette deck into the sound card of your PC. You can get as nice a sound card as you wish. From there the sound card converts the analog input into digital. Depending on your software, you can process the file to... | |
| PC audio is it the best next thing???? I've completely switched my music collection to a dedicated Linux OS server (in lossless FLAC format) which feeds a Slim Devices Squeezebox 3 which feeds a Lavry DA-10 DAC. This goes straight to the amp and to the speakers. I did a lot of back-to-... | |
| Tape Out as Subwoofer Output? A true "tape out" on a receiver or preamp is a fixed line level output that is not connected to the volume control. So, as you turn your volume up and down on your main speakers, the tape out volume remains set at full output. You could adjust the... | |
| low vs high gain I can think of no technical reason that the gain setting would tie to dynamics as you describe unless you are just horridly mismatched. When you look at an amp's specs, you'll see a sensitivity value. For example, my amp needs 1.5 volts at the inp... | |
| low vs high gain Keep in mind that using the higher 32 dB gain setting does not increase the power output of your amp. The max is the max no matter which you choose. As noted in a previous response, the switch is simply there to give you more flexibility in matchi... | |
| Benchmark DAC-1, Lavry DA10, Altmann Attraction I bought a Lavry DA10 some months ago and have been very pleased with it. It is not as analytic as the Benchmark, but lacks the sterility (though that is really too harsh a word for the Benchmark.) I find the Lavry has good depth and resolution wi... | |
| Life after Maggies? I was in an almost identical situation a year ago. I moved and the listening room in the new house was too small (13' X 15') for my Maggie 1.6QR's. Believe me, I tried, but there was just not enough breathing room for them from both a sonic and ph... | |
| Ethernet Wireless Hard Drive Music Server Your maximum streaming rate from an uncompressed CD is 1.4 Mbps. Even the old 802.11b speed (10 Mpbs) is adequate so the g is more than fine. If you wish to play any of the lossy compressed file formats you're even better off since those bit rates... | |
| Upgrading a CJ PV-10A I had a PV10A and replaced the high voltage caps in the power supply. However, the originals were just starting to show their age and the unit wasn't as quiet as when I first acquired it. In fact, it actually had started generating hash in the nea... | |
| Favorite driving music I prefer compilation CDs for my driving. I've gotten to the point where I actually remix material in Adobe Audition and add interesting transition clips. (For example, a switch from a Vivaldi cello short to Ray Parker's Ghostbusters tune, using Mo... | |
| How loud do you listen to your music? Are you using the A scale or the C to measure? On the C scale, I tend to listen in the mid 70's low to mid 80's (this will show lower on the A scale.) There is also the issue of whether you are using the peak mode or average. The type of music you... |