Re: MD: speaker wattage and headphone output
Jim Coon answered my questions, | The sound quality will be the same. After posting I found Aiwa's customer service number and called there. The rep said the same thing as the salesdroid did about quality but couldn't give me any specifics. He did acknowledge the key difference for my situation: that speaker wattage does not affect headphone output. (Of course it doesn't affect TOSlink output either, and he confirmed that the TOSlink output is active only for CD/CDR/CDRW play; the unit has no ADC and does not provide S/PDIF from radio signals or audiocassette play.) | You aren't going to over drive either one. My question was about driving them *enough*, so I take it from your reply that it was a given that it could. | 30 watts per channel will be a 3 db increase in the sound level... Or | just enough for you to hear the you turned it louder. You won't be | operating anywhere near that. You will be in a linear portion of the | output and it will make no difference. OK then, thanks to you and the Aiwa rep I'm keeping the 14 instead of going to the trouble of returning it and then spending $10 more for the 17. (It's hard enough to lug the 14, and the 17 probably is heavier.) - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: speaker wattage and headphone output
My minisystem, which I rely on for tuner input to MD, bit the dust and needs to be replaced. I'm waffling between two models of Aiwa's NSX-AJ series: the NSX-AJ14 has 15W per channel, while the NSX-AJ17 has 30W but costs more. (Exactly how much more I'm still trying to determine, because there's a rebate on the 14 and I can't find out whether it appplies to the 17.) I bought a 14 but thought of these things on the way home, so it's still sealed in its carton. The deceased system had only 5W per channel, but it was more than loud enough for my bedroom, and I'm far past the age when one wants one's sound system to shake the walls. A salesperson at Circuit City told me that higher wattages improve quality (whatever exactly that means), not just potential volume. But I'd be recording to MD from the headphone jack, not the speaker connec- tions; do wattage differences affect the headphone output? If not, I might as well keep the 14. If so, I can try the 14 to see if its headphone output is loud enough, but what about this "quality" issue? Any applicable advice will be appreciated. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: speaker wattage and headphone output
THe sound quality will be the same. You aren't going to over drive either one. Now if you wanted to crank the sucker up and shake the windows and have the whole neighborhood on your neck it might be a different story. 30 watts per channel will be a 3 db increase in the sound level... Or just enough for you to hear the you turned it louder. You won't be operating anywhere near that. You will be in a linear portion of the output and it will make no difference. THe salesman probably just gets a bigger commission on the other one, and he wants to sound like he knows more than you do. Sales Hype. "David W. Tamkin" wrote: My minisystem, which I rely on for tuner input to MD, bit the dust and needs to be replaced. I'm waffling between two models of Aiwa's NSX-AJ series: the NSX-AJ14 has 15W per channel, while the NSX-AJ17 has 30W but costs more. (Exactly how much more I'm still trying to determine, because there's a rebate on the 14 and I can't find out whether it appplies to the 17.) I bought a 14 but thought of these things on the way home, so it's still sealed in its carton. The deceased system had only 5W per channel, but it was more than loud enough for my bedroom, and I'm far past the age when one wants one's sound system to shake the walls. A salesperson at Circuit City told me that higher wattages improve quality (whatever exactly that means), not just potential volume. But I'd be recording to MD from the headphone jack, not the speaker connec- tions; do wattage differences affect the headphone output? If not, I might as well keep the 14. If so, I can try the 14 to see if its headphone output is loud enough, but what about this "quality" issue? Any applicable advice will be appreciated. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jim Coon Not just another pretty mandolin picker. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If Gibson made cars, would they sound so sweet? My first web page http://www.tir.com/~liteways - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
