Re: RIAA distortion [was Re: Firewire under Linux, was: Re: [linux-audio-user] Setting...

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Subject: Re: RIAA distortion [was Re: Firewire under Linux, was: Re: [linux-audio-user] Setting...
From: Frank Barknecht (fbar_AT_footils.org)
Date: Mon Aug 23 2004 - 17:45:51 EEST

Hallo,
Cal hat gesagt: // Cal wrote:

> ----------
> and then at Mon, 23 Aug 2004 07:24:25 -0400, it was written ...
> >> > > to. (You cannot directly connect a record player to most soundcards
> >> > > because of RIAA distortion, you need a real phono input.)
>
> Kids today ... RIAA distortion ... good grief! Standards based equalisation
> designed to extract the optimal performance from the technology at hand - a
> very sharp diamond tipped point tracking a dust coated furrow in relatively
> soft vinyl - is not what's normally considered distortion.

Well, I did't know the correct english term for it... :( In Germany we
call the de-qualization stage "RIAA Entzerrer" which could translate
to "de-distortion"...

Ciao 

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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__

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