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| Digital Clock Noise Thanks, Jud!I did spend $35 for a diagnosis. When I dropped the player off, I mouthed my strange noises and the man at the counter immediately said that it was indeed some kind of digital noise - but probably not clocking noise. Within 24 hours th... | |
| Digital Clock Noise Am I serious about how to make the noise or am I serious that the noise bothers me? I listen to only classical music and there are often soft passages where system noises can be annoying if they exist. If the right channel is noise free, why shoul... | |
| Digital Clock Noise Please allow me to correct my description of the noise. It is not really like tweeting and chirping. It is like this:If you pucker your lips and make a shooshing noise while pulling your cheeks in and out from having your mouth pointed to having i... | |
| Cable Current Flow Direction Many thanks to all of you!! | |
| Cable Current Flow Direction I doubt that I could actually ever hear the difference. I have some cables with a small band or label at one end. Is there a general industry standard as to whether the banded end is the source or the destination? Or, does it vary according to sup... | |
| What causes some transports to oscillate? Kijanki is on the right track. Careful observation has revealed that the transport itself is NOT oscillating. The spindle and disc clamp are perfectly concentric and plumb. What is happening is that the little upper part of the clamp that goes alo... | |
| USB DAC with conventional transport ??? Thank you, Al; for that excellent description!I doubt that anyone currently makes a conventional CD transport that emulates the USB port of a computer - and "emulates" is the key word here. But one would think that such a transport is theoreticall... | |
| What causes some transports to oscillate? Thanks, Geoff!I thought about this but then dismissed the idea, erroneously thinking that nobody would design a disc player assuming that it would be placed on a perfectly level surface - houses and furniture being what they are. Oh well . . .I re... | |
| What causes some transports to oscillate? Thanks again!I consider the Matsushita/Panasonic DVD-A110U/CA transport and its successors to be quality equipment. They are certainly used in some high-end players. But then again, as Wyle E. Coyote said: "Even a genius can have an off day." (Yes... | |
| What causes some transports to oscillate? Thank you both very much!I have seen this happen in two different disc players with two different Matsushita/Panasonic transports. I discovered it when I heard the players making a tick-tick-tick, etc., about every half-second. I opened the player... | |
| McIntosh MVP851 - origin of transport Thanks, Theo - yes that helps!By any chance might you know whether the MVP841 (that's 841) has the 831's transport or the 851's transport or something else? | |
| McIntosh MVP841 Transport? Who makes it? Very interesting!I know that the Mcintosh MVP831 uses the circa 1999/2000 Panasonic transport also found in the Muse Model 9. I have seen inside an 851 and the transport is amazing. It has a large disc clamp that covers the entire disc. It is made... | |
| CD/DVD Player Mystery I went through something like this (but not exactly) several years back and it turned out that the laser was within specs, but marginal. | |
| Upscale RCA Jacks - McIntosh Even if it does not sonically make a difference; sometimes the more expensive jacks actually provide a more secure connection when the cables are heavy and/or stiff. | |
| DVD set ratings password bypass Hi Al --It worked!Just to share the information: You push and hold Rewind (skip back) Pause and Eject simultaneously and the unit will reinitialize. I had to hold the buttons for about 30 seconds before it reacted.Well done, Al - many thanks!! |