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Comment by Oggy posted on how does this fit all these Minolta, Nikon, Pentax, Sony, and work? at 12/07/2010 - 23:56
gartmore wrote:
Ken - are we talking the small amount of slack in the SR system when it's not powered or the self clean function.walkeja wrote:
I've never heard this on mine, but I am a little deaf.
Perhaps you don't have 'sensor clean at start up' turned on because you should feel it vibrate quite a bit.I've never heard this on mine, but I am a little deaf.
I have to say I have not heard the clunk on mine and I am certainly not going to shake it hard so I can.
Anvh wrote:
I believe it was Oggy that told me not to be so serious...
Ah yes, but was I being serious?I believe it was Oggy that told me not to be so serious...
Comment by Oggy posted on What's the greatest album cover of all time ? at 12/07/2010 - 21:02
thoughton wrote:
He said it was a rubbish cover, not a rubbish album
I tend to agree about the cover, it isn't anything special. I do however consider DSM to be one of their better albums, my only real problem with it is that godawful song Money! IMO Wish You Were Here and Animals are both far better Floyd albums
Actually looking back at the post I quoted he does not make it clear but that was not my point. I was pointing out the way people are saying that something is rubbish when what they mean is that they do not like it. The latter would be more accurate and less inflammatory.He said it was a rubbish cover, not a rubbish album
I tend to agree about the cover, it isn't anything special. I do however consider DSM to be one of their better albums, my only real problem with it is that godawful song Money! IMO Wish You Were Here and Animals are both far better Floyd albums
I do agree with you about Money though.
Comment by Oggy posted on What's the greatest album cover of all time ? at 12/07/2010 - 20:58
George Lazarette wrote:
Sorry Oggy, but you are talking theory, not practice.
Digital signals travel much faster than they need to in order to produce the right sound at the right time from the loudspeaker. One of the jobs of the D/A converter is to slow down the signal and output it at the right speed.
For digital audio, a cable only needs to be good enough to ensure that all the data arrives intact.
I wasn't arguing about analogue. I am quite happy to believe that a good cable will perform better than a bad one, but I have never found the time to to a comparison.
G
No George, I am talking practice - thirty years of it. Not in an audio environment but general data handling systems. The first time I came across it was in a digital radar simulation system in the early eighties. At the time, it was one of the fastest number crunchers in the world and you could crash it by pinching backplane wires together.Sorry Oggy, but you are talking theory, not practice.
Digital signals travel much faster than they need to in order to produce the right sound at the right time from the loudspeaker. One of the jobs of the D/A converter is to slow down the signal and output it at the right speed.
For digital audio, a cable only needs to be good enough to ensure that all the data arrives intact.
I wasn't arguing about analogue. I am quite happy to believe that a good cable will perform better than a bad one, but I have never found the time to to a comparison.
G
I agree with the comment that digital cables are not the bottleneck in the system.
I suspect that if we argue long enough, we will find we agree.
Comment by Oggy posted on Do you still play LP's? at 12/07/2010 - 20:44
Dangermouse wrote:
I work in a theatre, handling lighting and sound gear. We don't buy gold plated cables or horrifically expensive ones. We do buy good quality shielded ones, but that's due to needing them to be hard wearing and resistant to interference. We definitely don't use ones that have had any pseudoscientific nonsense applied to them!
On the other hand, most safety critical applications I have worked with (e.g. aircraft, gas pumping equipment) do extensively use gold connectors.I work in a theatre, handling lighting and sound gear. We don't buy gold plated cables or horrifically expensive ones. We do buy good quality shielded ones, but that's due to needing them to be hard wearing and resistant to interference. We definitely don't use ones that have had any pseudoscientific nonsense applied to them!
Comment by Oggy posted on Do you still play LP's? at 11/07/2010 - 22:49
George Lazarette wrote:
There is some justification for the view that cables can affect analogue sound quality, but none whatsoever for digital.
G
Sorry George - not true.There is some justification for the view that cables can affect analogue sound quality, but none whatsoever for digital.
G
Digital signals are about transition from one state to another - 0 to 1 if you will. As the capacitance (ability to store charge) of the cable increases, the time required to reliably change from one state to the other increases. This will limit the speed of data transfer.
As to analogue cables, they can make a world of difference to the signal.
Comment by Oggy posted on Do you still play LP's? at 11/07/2010 - 22:38
alun wrote:
As we know, there are many claims made for the effect of cabling on the sound quality of both analogue and digital audio, but has anyone claimed to see a difference in IQ resulting from a change of the wire from DSLR to computer.....?
If the impedance/capacitance/semiconductor effects due to impurities of the cable between your camera and PC were the limiting factor of the speed of transfer then going LCOFC/low capacitance may increase the speed. I suspect however that it is not.As we know, there are many claims made for the effect of cabling on the sound quality of both analogue and digital audio, but has anyone claimed to see a difference in IQ resulting from a change of the wire from DSLR to computer.....?
Comment by Oggy posted on Do you still play LP's? at 11/07/2010 - 20:13
woodworm wrote:
Would agree with Number of the Beast (the one posted is the original artwork, but not the original cover), or even add Iron Maiden's Live After Death as Derrick Riggs was a fantastic artist, though I guess if you're not a Maiden fan you may not recognise them like anyone would with Dark Side of the Moon (even though that was a rubbish cover and massively over rated album - probably the worst Pink Floyd album).
DSM was in the album chart for fifteen years. You may not like it but it certainly was not rubbish. Would agree with Number of the Beast (the one posted is the original artwork, but not the original cover), or even add Iron Maiden's Live After Death as Derrick Riggs was a fantastic artist, though I guess if you're not a Maiden fan you may not recognise them like anyone would with Dark Side of the Moon (even though that was a rubbish cover and massively over rated album - probably the worst Pink Floyd album).
Comment by Oggy posted on What's the greatest album cover of all time ? at 09/07/2010 - 22:07
