Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 17:47:42 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Music Playback on 100CT
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >While there are occasional dropouts (sounds like a light scratch on a vinyl >record), these occur infrequently and not always in association with hard >drive activity. I've had problems similar to this with some hard drives in the past after they've been running for a while, and start to heat up. It sounded very much like a not too scratchy LP with the clicks being fairly quiet, but continuous and random. Does your system do this when playing MP3s right after you first boot the system? Or does this happen only after the system has been running for a while? >System Resources show 94% after a fresh boot, so no problem there. I guess this isn't a problem then, esp. after reading Raymond's note. >What I have noticed, in addition to the occasional "dropouts", is >background noise very much like tape hiss. Since I got my portable MP3 player, and started listening to my Lib with headphones, I've noticed that the Yamaha OPL3-SAx sound chip on these Librettos is a >very< noisy chip. I never noticed it was quite as bad is it is when I was playing music through external speakers. The signal to noise ratio is not very high at all, and I'd be surprised if it's in the mid 70db range, where the high 90db, and over 100db mark is really preferable. As Raymond pointed out, the only way to deal with this is to crank up the volume of the signal, and try to drown out the noise. However if you listen to albums with a lot of low level signal and quiet passages like some tracks from Peter Gabriel's new 'Up' CD, that nasty noise just can't be avoided. Besides wanting to record a decent signal with the Lib, this has been something I've been dealing with since I got my MP3 player that is getting me interested in finding a decent sound card. I've yet to get any feedback from anyone on the list who actually has one, and has tested it out fairly extensively. I really wonder how well those old 16 bit sound cards from the late 90s manage to filter out all of the noise from the system's hardware, what kind of signal to noise ratio they offer, and just how little noise is introduced into recorded and feedback signals. Matt _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
