what are you listening to?

Getting my new 'stack' situated and dialed in. Pictures soon. The McIntosh is blowing my mind o_O

But here's a fresh digital 'Record Clean' Sugar-Cube grab off the old faithful... DP62L spinner.

The Technics went back into it's box..

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10mXWanC3WLSRDWBAs_yIKBgY0B5UfzRU/view?usp=drive_link

If you listen with headphones - you can hear the groove/wall noise, so these cubes don't totally eliminate the analog feel of vinyl.
 
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Here's one for Lee!:cool:

Looks like Sound Forge Clean Lab uses Ai or something to detect a vinyl feed and cleans up the lead-in needle drop and lifts at the end - during encoding conversion.
( learn something new everyday! that's worth the 30 bux right there! )
Need to figure out how to defeat that tho..

No better album side to check that azimuth/angle/tracking force etc. etc. are dialed in proper!

This one is 96k/24bit

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vA_z5XP85Vwl98h-ZpW_kSGg2Bc6NNIb/view?usp=drive_link
 
Here's a much smaller 320k MP3, converted from the FLAC 24bit source - with Ai auto-trim disabled.
Much smaller file coming in at only 25 MB ( for those spooked about Google Drive warnings )

I can hear a difference compared to the FLAC source but it still sounds pretty damn good!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_iXDCpNf8mXVB3n621-OSnt2iG-a3dUU/view?usp=drive_link

As a side note, I use a Sugarcube cleaning level of 7 out of 10 as my default. It attacks better with no appreciable coloration in the sound signature.
 
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I noticed a couple of 'clipping' moments in that Shpongle file. It's a hot record and I need to dial in the 'trim' on the McIntosh & gain on the digital stream side.
 
BlazeES said:
Getting my new 'stack' situated and dialed in. Pictures soon. The McIntosh is blowing my mind o_O

But here's a fresh digital 'Record Clean' Sugar-Cube grab off the old faithful... DP62L spinner.

The Technics went back into it's box..

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10mXWanC3WLSRDWBAs_yIKBgY0B5UfzRU/view?usp=drive_link

If you listen with headphones - you can hear the groove/wall noise, so these cubes don't totally eliminate the analog feel of vinyl.
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Is that Technics one of the new 1500 turntables? I seem to remember you saying that. It's supposed to be pretty good for the price.
 
Bob Boyer said:
Is that Technics one of the new 1500 turntables? I seem to remember you saying that. It's supposed to be pretty good for the price.
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Yep. It's an awesome turntable performance wise. Dead quiet direct-drive motor. It also has an onboard phono stage, so one can run it straight into a Line input.
But there is the usual low-capacitance, normal output as well - both are equally quiet. I'm just not a huge fan of what Technics did regarding the semi-automatic nature of the functionality. I guess I'm spoiled with the Denon.

https://us.technics.com/products/direct-drive-turntable-system-sl-1500c-k?variant=43902712643819

I'll be selling it. Someone will be getting a killer deal because I'll part with it for way less than MSRP.
 
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