Thanks for the clarifications. Of course I was joking, but to know what something is about is always interesting

I recently got a DVD from Australia for one song that I liked very much: "I can sing a rainbow". Each time I hear that song, it touches something very sensitve that connects with memories.

Alain

Peter,

When I will have my NOS1 with an "a" at the end of it, it will mean that I can use a less powerful PC to play my music ?

Alain

I endorse Anthony's words... This hasn't been recorded on our planet ?



Alain

I will need to ask someone around here (probably a store that offers this) to digitize a few albums I did not find in CD format or were a disaster in CD format. I tried my best to replace all my vinyls, but...

2 of these LPs are from a band called "Charlie":
- No Second Chance
- Lines
These have a big problem with the treble - it is almost totally gone, as if the master tapes were in a very bad shape when they were finally transferred from analog to digital.

Another is "Babe Ruth", with the album "Kid's Stuff". Not really known, not the original band neither, but the song "Since You Went Away" is nice and I really want to get it...

But ok, I will not ask for a special filter I prefer to stay with the "gang"

Alain

Hi Mani,

Peter will grunt about this but why not ask him to study the possibility of making a filter that will mimic the euphonic sounds that playing vinyl generates ?  

Alain

Hi Maxi,

True When we grouped to listen to music, I am sure that some friends were having fun seeing me doing all the stuff before playing music, but I also spent so much time alone listening to music, or maybe only with one or two friends at the time. It was intense sometimes ! I can hardly feel this nowadays and this may explain why I abandoned playing my music through LPs, but sometimes (seldom), I can go back to these times in my mind

I guess that advancing in time and having conscience of so many other things is kind of disrupting... And the time factor is one of these reasons...

Alain

I remember using the LAST product for all my LPs and their Stylast to clean the stylus before every play I also bought plastic sleeves to protect each LP from being scratched with the paper sleeve (when there was one)...

These where fun times and almost "spiritual" ones

Alain

I got rid of my turntable some 7 months ago and that was after maybe 15 years of not listening to my LPs. An Oracle Alexandria (for those who remember the Oracle Delphi, the Alexandria was the "little sister") with a Grace F9e (moving magnet and still working). I have kept a few LPs to have them extracted when I will feel like it (there are some of them that were never transferred to CDs, some other CDs have a "chocked" sound (loss of treble) as opposed to their vinyl equivalents.

I still remember some albums that were sounding great on vinyl, but this was at an age where I had not already damaged my own hearing with too loud music. Remembering how the music sounded then was enough for me to decide not to listen again, just in case I would regret turning into the digital age.

At the time I bought my first CD player (Harman Kardon model 7600, bought in 1990), I was amazed by the absence of clics, pops, wow - and the bass tightness was amazing. Then I realized how easy it was now to play music (without going through all the routine of cleaning the disk with a brush, cleaning the stylus, etc...).

I was ready to abandon all for the practicality the CD was bringing and when I finally decided to extract all my CDs on a hard drive, it was clear to me that I would never go back to vinyl.

It was not a matter of being better of worse, just one of being "easy" to manage. I have given up for all those times where I was going back to the store with one or more bad pressings (hole not centered, warped record, noisy background from a too worn matrix). IIRC in those times, there was 1 out of 2 records that were somewhat badly pressed (here in Canada at least). I had enough of all this.

Compared to vinyl, I had trouble with only a few CDs and this was enough for me to turn my back on vinyl - for good.

The only thing I could say I regret is that a turntable was the most beautiful piece of art from the audio chain. Dual 1229, Garrard Zero-100, Lenco L78, JVC direct drive, Thorens TD-160 and finally the Oracle (made here, in Quebec)... All these were good at their times, even if the mechanism was not up to par with the best belt driven turntables of the time (Pierre Clément, Linn Sondek, Sota Sapphire)...

I don't have a regret from these times. I was ready to spend all the time necessary to clean and play my vinyls, but that is definitely behind me and has been for the last 15 years now.

Alain

Hi Peter,

Do I understand it right when I see this identical with the black wire that we detached in the right portion of the NOS1 (coming from the USB port) and the isolation of the Silverstone USB controller card from the PC chassis ?

Alain

They also call them "tie wrap"...

Peter,

I understand what you mean. My concern is that while I use a preamp, it would mean that I need 2 pairs of cables and I really am not sure I want to go through the process of having my components fit with BNC connections... Not that I don't understand the benefits, but... And I am not sure why...

Alain

These Neutriks are said to be "passive"... Does it change anything (or not) ?

Alain

Hi Peter,

The sotm card needs power of course... I was talking about the switch that "cuts" the 5V that otherwise would be sent through the USB cable...

Here is how they tell it...

SOtm tX-USBexp Features
USB port
USB 3.0 compliant xHCI host controller
PCI express x1 Gen2 interface
Support for super-speed, high-speed, full-speed, and low-speed
USB port power on/off function
Over current protection
ESD protection


Alain
Edit: thinking about it again... I may not have understood your point - you mean that the Sotm will not work if power is not applied first at the USB port ?

Hi Juan,

Quite interesting The fact that all is "locked" on each side would make the connection more robust than a BNC to RCA adapter...

Regards,

Alain

Maybe what I experienced has to do with the Sotm USB card itself ? I can't really say, since then I have removed it and now use the Silverstone PCIe card...

Alain