No, no: I saying for myself that cannot make the teacher.
I doubt about that.
Sorry for my misunderstanding.
P. S.: Maybe I read too many ironic things lately...
Man, I'm so glad I tried this. It's the best vinyl sound I've ever had here, by a wide margin. Along with RIAA in DSP I can also do some sparingly-applied freq. response corrections, as determined from test records. Being able to "close the loop" in this manner has been a major advance in vinyl sound for me. Still not better than good digital, but that's a different thread, heh.
It can certainly simplify the analog front end. And allows the entire signal chain to be streamlined. Most systems still follow a 70s pattern for the analog path. If you build your system optimised for digital replay then that 'might' not be the optimal approach. But it's a path less trodden and might seem madness to some who've done it the same way for 50 years. And all harmless fun in the pursuit of musical enjoyment.
I make no claims for audible difference.
In the digital domain you can replace the 47k loading resistor usually found on MM inputs by a parametric EQ filter that contributes no extra noise. You get the effect of virtual loading like Douglas Self writes about, without any extra circuitry.
Also crosstalk correction can remove 9-10dB of crosstalk (just another type of distortion) from either channel, once again without adding any analog part in the signal chain. At 32bit floating point resolution, this is also effectively noiseless. I used to do this in the analog domain with a Denon PCC 1000 in the signal chain. After going digital, it's been replaced by a few parameters on the command line.
Now once again, I do not recommend that anyone takes this as an instruction, best practice or as advice. It just happens to work for me.
My chain has a digital fir filter running on the PC anyway, it made sense to me to keep the analog phono preamp as minimalistic as possible.
Also crosstalk correction can remove 9-10dB of crosstalk (just another type of distortion) from either channel, once again without adding any analog part in the signal chain. At 32bit floating point resolution, this is also effectively noiseless. I used to do this in the analog domain with a Denon PCC 1000 in the signal chain. After going digital, it's been replaced by a few parameters on the command line.
Now once again, I do not recommend that anyone takes this as an instruction, best practice or as advice. It just happens to work for me.
My chain has a digital fir filter running on the PC anyway, it made sense to me to keep the analog phono preamp as minimalistic as possible.
Hey guys, your last 3 replies made me want to turn on again my old turntable (but as new) Thorens with Mission arm and Grado cardridge...
Things (digital) have (and are) changed so much in recent times that sometimes I really feel disorganized.
Just as I believe most of us, before I act I need to follow every step in an attempt to understand any single "how" and any single "why" and actually from time to time I seem to not be able to stand behind digital "updates"...
However, IMO 3 beautiful posts yours. 👍
🙂
You would be replacing parts. There are enough AD and DA converters that are getting close to being tranparent. There is even at least one that actually is transparent. You couldn't say that about any analogue deemphasis, be it LCR, LR or god forbid RC based.
Another aspect of vinyl playback that seems widely ignored is proper cartridge setup which can't be done with a protractor and randomly placing a USB microscope isn't much help either.
Maybe with a special laser... 😎
[DREAM-mode]Maybe by solving once and forever the eccentricity of the records and most of all their undulating in table without dedicated clamping...[/DREAM-mode]
[DREAM-mode]Maybe by solving once and forever the eccentricity of the records and most of all their undulating in table without dedicated clamping...[/DREAM-mode]
It's a complete system. This is a good starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable
It seems to have not had any following, however.
Anyway, I would not have believed in it because it is a too ambitious goal IMO, indeed even velleitarian.
Of the series, technologically speaking: "too beautiful to be true"...
The first "prehistoric technology", and the second "science fiction" (impossible marriage).
Anyway, I would not have believed in it because it is a too ambitious goal IMO, indeed even velleitarian.
Of the series, technologically speaking: "too beautiful to be true"...
The first "prehistoric technology", and the second "science fiction" (impossible marriage).
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That's, when the remedy is worse than the disease.
They even tried to photograph the grooves and then "read" the photographs, I do not believe at all in a such kind of project, in my way of see things.
They even tried to photograph the grooves and then "read" the photographs, I do not believe at all in a such kind of project, in my way of see things.
Yes. Even with a wet cleaning before every playback there is always dust that will find it's way onto the surface. Maybe an airhose could be employed to blow dust away? Or suck it in like a vacuum cleaner.
Dust is a problem without solution in home systems, apart the brush DECCA, simple and ingenious.
Who remembers the Stanton 681 Triple E?
I own one, it had an affecting brush placed in front that weighed a figure.
Shure V15 Type IV too had one, but much lighter and dampened, maybe other ones...
Who remembers the Stanton 681 Triple E?
I own one, it had an affecting brush placed in front that weighed a figure.
Shure V15 Type IV too had one, but much lighter and dampened, maybe other ones...
I was thinking of something like a stylus tracking at something like 1 gram, perhaps have some tiny cameras viewing interference patterns that change with the movement of the needle, would cameras be quick enough? Perhaps one camera would do for both channels.
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