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Re: Rumble

Posted by lanny (A) on December 18, 2005 at 13:38:34

In Reply to: Rumble posted by Mpoes on December 18, 2005 at 11:23:13:

> with certain records, I seem to have what I believe is rumble

If your system is quiet enough--and yours sounds decently isolated--and your woofers go low enough, you will hear low-frequency noise enshrined in the grooves of many records. In many classical recordings made in Kingsway Hall, you get subway train solos every few minutes. Listen to LPs made in Boston's Symphony Hall and you'll hear trucks going through the gears on the street outside. Or, sometimes, rumble from a noisy cutting lathe will lurk under an entire side.

Point is, it's not always something wrong with your system--it could be quite the opposite, that you're faithfully reproducing a noisy recording, warts and all. It's either annoying or fun, depending on your point of view. Same with conductors who sing (ugh).

My guess is that engineers of the era didn't have monitoring equipment capable of reproducing this noise, and didn't realize it was being captured.

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