[Jukebox-list] Audio question / Ipod on a juke

[Ken Doyle]

Ray wrote:
"Although some juke boxes have very good audio systems
and some don't, these systems were never designed to
play CD quality audio with the wide dynamic range
(this being the extreme highs and extreme lows not
being reduced in volume by any significant amount) 
that many MP3's and cd's have."

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I don't think you understand dynamic range.
Dynamic range is the difference between how loud the
loudest part and how soft the softest part of the
music is
.  
CDs are capable of great dynamic range, but in most
music recorded today there is very little dynamic
range (classical music excluded).  There is more
dynamic range in Sgt. Pepper from 1967 than there is
in the typical pop / dance / rap / rock album now in
2007.

The AVC (automatic volume control) in the juke must be
deactivated if you want dynamic range.

As for the sound of a live performance, very very few
pop records are engineered to sound anything at all
like a live performance.  

I also wanted to point out that ampifiers have
improved very little in the last 50 years.  We did not
switch to transistors because they're better, we did
it because transistor amps are cheaper to build.  No
expensive output and power transformers, and of course
they're smaller and produce less heat which is not
really an issue in a juke cabinet.

Why do newer amps have more power in watts?  Because
the cheaper to build speakers we use today are not
power efficient.  Ever hear a Klipsch horn at 15
watts?  Ever hear a well tuned Seeburg M100G play Led
Zeppelin?

Ken D.


       
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