nicketynick wrote: > the platter for me - toast! It's a JVC JL-F30 turntable, with an ADC > brand cartridge with a slip-on stylus - QLM 33 MKIII. So I went and got > an Ortofon OM5E cartridge; I've seen good reviews, etc. Well, first > thing I noticed is I don't seem to have the same dynamic range when I > look at my recorded waveforms - ie. the loud bits aren't as much louder > than the silences as with the old needle. I put the same song > side-by-side, there seems to be about a 15db difference. Does this make > sense? Am I going to regret doing the rest of the albums with the > Ortofon cartridge? Any tips?
Different cartridges have differing sensitivity. I'm not familiar with those two specifics, but a 15 db difference is not unusual. See if you can find specs for the two. I'm assuming that you didn't do something radical like switch from moving magnet to a moving coil design. Have you measured it? Use a wave editor (Adobe Audition is one) and see what the levels are. The absolute loudness level is not important, but the signal to noise ratio is critical. It is easy to use a wave editor to raise the signal levels. It is even easy to use one to do compression or "normalization" if one would be so evil as to want to do either of these. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
