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In Reply to: RE: Hooked on mono... posted by Qman on September 16, 2013 at 08:08:26
I agree about the mono but I do it through two speakers. (original mono recordings/mono cartridge) I suspect that there is something very unnatural about stereo reproduction that confuses / makes the brain work harder keeping you distracted from the music.
It still amazes me the amount of "space" or "sense of being there" i hear in some of my mono records played in stereo.
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Even playing mono LPs on my stereo arm and cartridge can be very satisfying. I have a few old mono jazz records that I love but are not in stellar condition. With stereo playback though, the noise comes from the speakers with the music being completely separate from it in a stable center image. It's really easy to ignore the noise since it seems be be coming from a completely different source.
eso
They were a carnival of American decay on parade, and they had no idea of the atrocity they had inflicted upon themselves.“ Henry Chinaski
try wiring your cartridge sections in series and you will lose a lot of your surface noise. (connect white to green and take signal form red and blue).
dave
But in the mean-time I might have to try that. Thanks
eso
They were a carnival of American decay on parade, and they had no idea of the atrocity they had inflicted upon themselves.“ Henry Chinaski
I'm outputting a mono signal from our iMac streaming Spotify...actually sounds really good for low rez 320kbps. I'll have to try the what you're doing at home. I see Edcor has some stereo to mono transformers. Would this be the best way for hi-level line inputs to my preamp to convert stereo to mono?
You could use a bridging mixer.
I used it with 2x UTC A-20 transformers and it worked a treat. The RC comp branch was not required in this case, configured for 'complete null' test it cancelled everything.Credit to Jeff Goldsmith.
"You should file away that bridging mixer (distinct from a balanced mixer) circuit, I don't see
it anywhere when I search around. Everyone just resistor bridges now which is invalid from a
CMRR standpoint (just like op amp 'balanced' input transformer-less studio gear).
The CT of the balanced winding can be grounded making the mixer only need one input
transformer (or an actual balanced input).
As in using equal value resistors from R(+) to both L(+) and L(-) which leaves you taking
off the monoaural signal between R(+) and L(-). Anything you connect to one branch, you
have to connect the same to the other even if you don't use it."Shane
Edits: 10/25/13
I honestly do not know what the best way to sum the signals is.
dave
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