5/21/2023 0 Comments Alpinesoft vinylstudio reviewsAt the bottom left of the Audacity screen, select the sample rate to match that set on the JIL.All playback devices in Audacity are called “Speakers”. On the Playback Device tab select, Speakers (Meridian Explorer2 USB DAC audio), or whatever DAC you are using. All sources are called “Microphones” in Audacity. For the Recording Device, select Microphone (Schiit Jil A to D Converter). Near the top left on the Audacity screen, select Windows Direct Sound as the audio host.If the red LED flashes at all turn the gain down so digital clipping doesn’t occur. Set the gain knob on the right side of the JIL so that when an analogue signal is playing on the input jacks, the orange LED flashes occasionally.Select the sampling rate desired by cycling through the three options (48, 96, 192 kHz) using the push button on the left side of the JIL front panel.In the days before the internet, when “network” was usually preceded by “television” and, “forum” was a hockey rink in Montreal where Les Canadiens played, a former boss of mine called pooling information, “tribal knowledge.” If anyone else in the WoS tribe knows a better way to do what I’m about to describe feel free to enlighten us. That being said, here are a few Audacity tips as they relate to using the JIL and Explorer2. But you can safely assume that I don’t know very much. More, certainly, but in some cases not by a lot. I assumed that those younger than myself know a lot more about computers, but that turned out not to be. Between the PC/DAC interface, an Uptone Audio USB Regen cleaned up the digits and provided clean(er) power for the Meridian.Īssumptions, we all make them. It’s decent sounding, but Meridian, UPDATE YOUR WINDOWS 10 DRIVERS SO THAT MQA FILES FROM TIDAL CAN BE DECODED IN FULL RESOULTION, please. Sticking with the economy, and at the same time high-value approach, a Meridian Explorer 2 USB DAC was pressed in to service. The other variable is the D to A conversion on the playback side of the equation. The digital midwife was my mid-grade HP laptop running (free!) Audacity software.I don’t think I’d be alone in seeing the absurdity of buying a three or four hundred cable to use with a $200 A to D converter. Not being a fan of expensive cabling, I purchased the PYST, a $20 Straight Wire USB cable offered by Schiit.(has anyone actually listened to those? Please let me know) This is the “Tube 8” unit used in making the digital files, that I posted in the JIL preview article. Four 12AX7’s and four 12AT7’s inhabit this two-chassis monstrosity, as well as a pair of Lundahl step-up transformers for low output MC cartridges. A DIY project of mine from over the last year or so, an Aikido phono stage that uses eight(!) dual-triode tubes, provides the necessary gain and RIAA equalization. To boost the signal from a phono cartridge up to a line stage (or to the JIL) requires a phono stage.A new-to-the-mix Pro-Ject “The Classic” SB SuperPack turntable, with Ortofon Quintet Red low-output MC cartridge (review in the works.) Those south of the 49 th must console themselves with a wimpy Blue Point high-output MC that’s included with their “The Classic” SB SP’s.My usual Audio Research line stage and power amp, PS Audio AC Regenerator, PSB Platinum T8 speakers all connected up with my usual ragtag collection of DIY Cardas- and Kimber-based frankencables.The JIL has preserved their smooth and propulsive analog quality, even at the non-optimal 48 kHz sample rate. Lame, maybe, but the JIL has captured back-to-the-future moments for me that would have been lost in a few years due to tape deterioration. Why a time machine, you ask? While I write this, I’m listening to digitization of some analog tapes from the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. ![]() ![]() To deny myself would mean giving up my Billy Connelly recordings. Me, I don’t mind a little good-natured vulgarity. Stanley, maybe? Sam? Supersonic? You figure it out. You won’t want to risk offending anyone – or in the case of your audio buddy, you’ll want to keep him from taking the piss. If your mother-in-law, pastor, imam, rabbi or your non-audiophile buddy drops by and asks what the stylised “S” stands for on the front panel, you need to have a story ready. Let’s deal with the name and get it out of the way.
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