>>>...the carts and turntables you've used were neither maintained, installed, >>>nor aligned, by me.<<<
Hah! Wish I knew you were out there back then, mate. You'd've definitely heard from me. Between parts budgets drying up, pro stylii giving way to deejay needles that didn't fit the cartridges (vinyl going away too), station engineers being RIFfed and interns repacking carts rather than purchase new ones, its no wonder why neither carts nor turntables were maintained very well at a number of plants, large and small. The handwriting was on the wall (in spraypaint) once the $300 Turtle Beach Multisound card blew the doors off the freq response, phase response and noise specs of a $3,000 ITC tripledecker. There is no contest between ASI cards and those $9 ice-scrapers offered as "hi-fi" soundcards at the computer shop. But for all the derision that cheap cards get, specs on them are not what they were in the 8-bit 'Blaster days. For low-power community operations, fading rural stations, webcasters and public access operators, there often is no alternative. And for cheap penny-pinching "make-it-work" mad hobbyists like myself, a box of cheap soundcard 'pulls' is as nice to have around as a liter of Pepsi and the phone number of Angelo's Pizza on the speed-dialer. AP _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
