I got a new CD today, 'Consolers Of The Lonely' by The Raconteurs. I really enjoyed their last album, 'Broken Boy Soldier', despite the poor sound quality and this one is even better musically. The sound quality however is a lot worse, especially when played on the Transporter. Track 8 is the worst culprit, causing the Transporter to output alarming crunchy crackling noises. I thought I had blown a tweeter or my amp was malfunctioning but further listening to something else showed that all was OK with the kit. Track 8 wasn't the only offender either. The problem was independent of volume control on the Transporter or on the Amp.
I looked at the file in Roxio Sound Editor and was not surprised to see that this track is badly clipped. In fact all the tracks on the album have alarming amounts of clipping. I played the CD on the CD player. It sounded OK, poor quality but no nasty noises. I routed the CD digital out through the Transporter. Again no nasty noises. Same on the computer. Windows Media Player played the track OK from the CD and from the file. So it seems that all these other replay devices have some way of dealing with clipping - muting perhaps? - which prevents nasty noises from escaping the speakers. The Transporter it seems does not. Sadly this CD is not untypical of recent releases although it is the first one I have played on the Transporter that has actually caused this nasty crunchy crackling sound. Is this a known problem? Is there a fix? -- technobear Chris Transporter >> Croft Syntegra >> Zu Druid mkIV ------------------------------------------------------------------------ technobear's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1444 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61069 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
