Archimago;686523 Wrote: > The interesting thing here too is that many music lovers (including > myself) seek out some of these early 80's CD's because they're not > over-compressed and loud like modern remasters, also, many are not > EQ'ed to compensate for those little white iPod earbuds or the average > boombox. I really enjoy the discussion on these matters at the Steve > Hoffman site. [A side note - many of these CD's have pre-emphasis added > which needs to be corrected with programs like SOX after ripping to your > music server, otherwise they're shrill and thin sounding - nothing to do > with jitter.] > > Wondering for folks who have looked under the hood of the Touch - what > crystal oscillator does it use for 44kHz? Any idea how many PPM the > frequency stability is on that crystal? I'm curious as I want to run > some rough calculations... > > Arch
Out of 3,000 CD's (mostly rock/pop/blues/jazz) I had 2 with pre-emphasis... If my classical collection had been larger I might have hit a few. The problem with many early CD's is the masters used were sometimes of dubious vintage - LP EQ masters, 2nd or 3rd gen safety copies etc... Also as I'm sure SH would corroborate, it took folk a while to acquire the skills necessary to handle digital tech with the same finesse that had been built up over the previous 30 years. Many early CD's avoid the loudness war brick wall limiting problem, but they are also "cut" at quite low levels which didn't help early on with what were effectively 13-bit (usable) CD players! -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/W7)+Teddy Pardo PSU - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters,VdH Toslink,Kimber 8TC Speaker & Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93232 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
