As for using old receivers with new speakers, i've noticed that many new speakers are rated at 6 ohms impedance or even 4 whereas my old Marantz amp is designed for 8 ohm speakers. Is this a problem?
that's what I was wondering, too. the amplifier in my receiver is rated at: 100 Watt - 8 Ohm - 20000 Hz - THD 0.09%
and most of the speakers I've checked out are rated at 6 ohms
this is all kind of mysterious to me, to be honest, and i don't have the time or energy to do a deep audiophile dive on what it all means. should i find speakers rated for 8 ohms or just deal w/ the mismatch?
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Monday, 29 October 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
ok, i looked thru my receiver's manual, and it has this:
https://ptpimg.me/5s3x3u.png
i assume this is referring not to "individual speakers A and B" but to "speaker _system_ A and/or B"
so i would guess that if i get two speakers rated at 6 ohms, I could set the speaker impedance selector to the left position (which is more speakers rated 4 or 6 ohms) and be fine...?
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Monday, 29 October 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link
er, which is *for speakers rated 4 or 6 ohms
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Monday, 29 October 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
got a brand consultant to design a sick visual identity
Isn't a crucial part of the snake-oil aesthetic the complete absence of sick visual identity? You don't buy Shakti Stones because they look cool or they're marketed well, you buy them because they REALLY WORK.
xxxxxxp I have Elacs, great for the price.
― mick signals, Monday, 29 October 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
hmm good point, that's even easier. The Archie McPhee store has loads of like medical/scientific surplus bottles and I can just set up a website with a terrible shopping cart interface and fill the bottles with…I dunno, expired moisturizer?
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 29 October 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
honestly you could just put in WD40 and sell it as something to slather on your speaker/component connections and it wouldn't do any harm
― Greta Van Fleek (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 October 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
perfect
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 29 October 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
hello I only lurk on this thread normally but wanted to say that unless you have a tube/valve amp then minor deviations from states impedance shouldn’t cause a problem
― _kfb, Monday, 29 October 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
yeah iirc speakers don't have constant impedance anyway
― niels, Monday, 29 October 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
thanks! i found a few articles that suggested the same -- that most widely-purchased consumer amps and speakers are broadly compatible despite the ohm-age unless you really crank your speakers up to an incredibly high volume.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Monday, 29 October 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
i also read that if you empty a can of wd40 into each speaker and shake the around, you really improve their reproduction of high-hats and cymbals.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Monday, 29 October 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
ok not audiophile snake oil but those console record players things above were stuck in my head, then my gf walked into a vintage market thing last weekend and uhhhhh i walked out having bought this thing (and i didn't know what thread to brag/lament about it in?)
https://i.imgur.com/p94G4aB.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/m9OrqbO.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/GXgCfrL.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/3nRNFvN.jpg
― vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
holy moses
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link
ooooh lord wow
― Greta Van Fleek (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link
Hey that owns though, what a singular piece of garbage
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 15:27 (five years ago) link
geniunely don't know if i am excited about this or mad about it, it arrives saturday
worst part is i gotta move the fake-fireplace-mantel thing we JUST got for free from friends who were moving and i have no idea where to put it. what kind of fucking monster has two fake mantels in their 2nd floor apartment
― vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
have always thought one of those type things would make a funny stand for a little dj setup at a party or whatever.
― andrew m., Tuesday, 6 November 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link
Perhaps you could stack them into a Mantleplex
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
Holy shit, amazing
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
will that is something v special
― i want donald duck to scream into my dick (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
Can imagine Don Draper or Sterling Cooper holding court while Mancini spins on the turntable.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
Do you have those pix all in one imgur gallery? Because I'd love to share it.
― saddest kamancheh (bendy), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
i'm about to!
does this work? https://imgur.com/a/b7AVXfI
― vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link
That works. Such a stunner, thanks!
― saddest kamancheh (bendy), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
i'll get more pics when it's in my home! (that's it still at the store. arrives friday)
― vote no on ilxit (Will M.), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
SEX BOMB SEX BOMB ITS A SEX BOMB
― Jacob Lohl (stevie), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
from a headphone review:
"OMG these are fun. I’ve never heard songs with such control and resolution. They seem to “pace” songs better than I’ve heard from any other headphone or IEM."
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 9 December 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
also the cover art is more beautiful, and the songs on each album are in a better sequence than with any other headphones
― mick signals, Sunday, 9 December 2018 21:43 (five years ago) link
my wife didn’t leave me when I hear music this way
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Sunday, 9 December 2018 23:54 (five years ago) link
lol silby
― mick signals, Monday, 10 December 2018 14:16 (five years ago) link
haha a+
― niels, Monday, 10 December 2018 17:49 (five years ago) link
Just saw another FB ad for those ATX consoles wherein the comments someone shared that the company quoted them $6500 for a system.
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 10 January 2019 03:03 (five years ago) link
At the heart of the master clock generator is a crystal oscillator, encased in in a temperature- controlled box, the “oven”, to maintain the best and stable performance under an ideal temperature condition for crystal oscillation. This oven-controlled crystal oscillator (OCXO, for short) generates an extremely accurate 10MHz clock signal which is within ±3 ppb of frequency temperature characteristics and within ±0.1 ppm of frequency precision.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MTP5PBZ/ref=sr_1_27?ie=UTF8&qid=1547581875&sr=8-27&keywords=teac+receiver
― dinnerboat, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 19:56 (five years ago) link
At the heart of the master clock generator is a crystal oscillator
oh no shit?
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 19:59 (five years ago) link
in the heart of the generatorthere's a crystal oscillatorbut there's never been one zanier than...DUCKULA
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:00 (five years ago) link
what the fuck do you even plug a standalone clock generator into on your fuckin hifi, let alone need a $1500 box to keep your $0.50 crystal at a constant temperature
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:03 (five years ago) link
huh. not too often you see this kind of talk from a big namebrand thingy.
― andrew m., Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
I don't know this brand b/c I don't actually know hifi shit at all but it's weird that they apparently sell a bunch of reasonably priced components and also a stupid $1,500 box
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:08 (five years ago) link
if you can, why not?
― mh, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link
I really need to find a way to invest in the business of selling $4 of parts in a $9 box for $1,500 to credulous douchebags
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
I think those clocks are important for mastering, getting the CD to talk to the CPU in a manner that allows the whole enterprise to function -- I think they're mainly for mastering engineers
I could be wrong but I know timing stuff is part of that whole aspect of the process of getting a record from tape to WAV to release
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:23 (five years ago) link
predicating your product on rare sub-millisecond glitches being human perceptible is something, for sure
― mh, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link
right, like, the stability of the random 10Mhz crystal that costs $0.37 when you buy at least a thousand I looked up on digikey is ±50ppm or something, so like…at worst you get 9,999,500 cycles in a given second instead of 10 million or something. That's 0.05% error I think.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:32 (five years ago) link
I think a timing error at the mastering or production level would cost more than this machine, so (if that is in fact the use of this machine) if I were delivering files for production I'd err on the side of the too-accurate insurance policy
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link
I think one of these also powered the Enterprise.
― dinnerboat, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:35 (five years ago) link
The CG-10M is a master clock generator that brings out the best performance from USB DACs, network players, CD players and any other kind of device that supports a 10MHz clock input.
this part of the description makes me think it's being marketed to consumers. the two products it mentions in the compatibility section appear to be desktop headphone amplifiers, not meant for production but listening
― mh, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:39 (five years ago) link
fwiw here's a technical article on the subject https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/does-your-studio-need-digital-master-clock
looks like their conclusions are that even in production work, an external clock is still of dubious benefit
― mh, Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:46 (five years ago) link
was about to post the same link lol
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 15 January 2019 20:51 (five years ago) link
I want the analog master clock. It moves smoothly thru time instead of leaping from millisecond to millisecond. Much smoother — anyone with ears can hear the difference! Crisper highs, rounder lows, more articulate high mids, and the low mids just caress you.
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 00:16 (five years ago) link
also nobody knows why but the wood paneling on the analogue master clock really warms up the sound
― umsworth (emsworth), Wednesday, 16 January 2019 00:30 (five years ago) link