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  1. Posts : 199
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       #31

    I have never seen such unscientific rubbish as in that last jim davis post. Where do I begin ?

    lasers are silent and don't make any noise
    CD players don't scratch disks - they are read by lasers
    LEDs are not 'hard on pre-amps'
    yanking out LEDs - WHAT ?
    preamps are sweeter without LEDs - good lord !

    'Marantz has a control to Turn all leds off on their player because it clearly makes the machine sound better' - if there is such a switch, it's probably because some folk find LEDs on equalizers etc distracting.

    As a graduate physicist who worked for many years in electrical engineering (mainly computers and digital electronics), I am truly amazed the all the rubbish this guy churns out.
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       #32

    As I said in my last post, I didn't have time to digest everything he said. Since I have time tonight, I re-read that post and have to agree with your assessment. However, I can look past that kind of thing and try to help get a solution. For some reason, Jim hasn't responded to my last post.
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       #33

    wither 2 said:
    I'm in a hurry tonight so I haven't digested everything your said. However, if you can connect the player directly to speakers for playback, then it has to have an internal amp. What is the model number for your player?

    Also, you also didn't clarify how you're using the USB drive.

    Hello Mr. Wither, and thank you for yours.
    As I had stated this to follow, in another post-
    My info Quote
    The world famous "Saul Marantz Sound" died around the 5005 model CD player, which was buckets of mid range (your mothers voice) at every level of sound, which was a most hypnotic tone, with near zero listeners fatigue, but then to stay market worthy cause company's were doing it,, around the 6000 series players, they then (Marantz) with great turpitude* installed a USB port on the front of their CD players.No marantz CD players have a amp in them I know of except a sort of pre-pre amp that Via a RCA connection sends a signal to a out board "Pre Amp" and from there by way of a RCA connector to a out board power amp then on to speakers via speaker wire end Qoute


    This putting of a USB port right on the CD player as a option, as stated before, meant a real revenue loss to marantz in repairs Etc. because using the USB right out of the player, still used the players Circuit board, but shut down many moving parts known for needing repair and thus losing them repair money.
    And cd's only needed to be recorded and archived in perfect condition. But they had to do it, because other company's machines were getting a bit of their market, not for better sound but better versatility and more "Bells and Whistles", I.e. a usb port on a lessor quality sounding machine.
    I have 4 CD players now, but for this thread I am using and making reference to the Marantz CD 6005, in which i use a 128 GB flash stick.
    But long after the CD 6001-2-3-4 and 5 models had replaced the marantz CD 5005, the CD 5005 still had a page at the marantz web site, when latter models had disappeared, because of its sound, it just has a certain magic to the ear, that can not be measured with a calculator.
    hope that helps
    j






    Last edited by jim davis; 02 Jun 2020 at 01:31.
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       #34

    badcrc said:
    I have never seen such unscientific rubbish as in that last jim davis post. Where do I begin ?

    lasers are silent and don't make any noise
    CD players don't scratch disks - they are read by lasers
    LEDs are not 'hard on pre-amps'
    yanking out LEDs - WHAT ?
    preamps are sweeter without LEDs - good lord !
    'Marantz has a control to Turn all leds off on their player because it clearly makes the machine sound better' - if there is such a switch, it's probably because some folk find LEDs on equalizers etc distracting.
    As a graduate physicist who worked for many years in electrical engineering (mainly computers and digital electronics), I am truly amazed the all the rubbish this guy churns out.
    Dear Mr. BadCRC, I dearly want to congratulate you on your making it thru a most wicked Diploma process as we have in the united states, you must have some deep endurance for which you most be honored, and i am sure what you think, makes perfect sense on paper.
    How ever, Marantz's and my observations on sound, are intuitive ones, and as Einstein was so rapid to point out, imagination/intuition is more important then intelligence, thus, making the poet correct who said, "in some subjects, you can add up the parts, but never get the correct Sum"
    Music in not of a known mathematical "Experience" nor as is a "time stopping kiss" one must be a master of both these known but different universes, that means one must be a "Amphibian" a school of thought and experience, that takes tools of sentimentality, poetry and feeling. There is no known school of training for these, and those who have them both make no small amounts of money at company's like Marantz, or per se, perfume factory's, this leap from one measure of understanding to another is best exampled in a physics poem I heard-
    "Mass" times "Movement" Divided by a "Lack of Space" must equal "Patience" or all "Hell Breaks Out".
    As to your questionable and not very polite out burst "of opinion" I forgive you for its inert insults.
    I am so reminded of the guy, who the British Geographers Society, who while in public, was stripped of every degree and credential he had spent a life earning, after he presented a essay and picture of a newly discovered animal, the "Society" had deemed a fake, think it was a "Aardvark" or maybe a Platypus Duck, any case as they threw him out the front door from their high wood paneled halls, there on the wall behind them was a huge picture of many animals from around the world, including the one he had just presented to them, down in the left hand corner of the art work, I believe. Call the folks at Marantz and talk to their R and D guys, it may be fun for you,
    I would even bet they may invite you to their labs, as "Audio Engineers" are widely known for their politeness in scientific conversation. and yes there is a switch for turning off the leds, and yes they state very clearly it is to improve sound quality, which it most certainly does, and most so yes, I concur there are many music company's selling "Fairy Dust" but what ever you do, "Shine On"


    J
    Last edited by jim davis; 02 Jun 2020 at 01:19.
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       #35

    I have limited time today but I now understand the USB flash drive connection to your player and that it needs an amp for output to speakers. How are you connecting to the PC?
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       #36

    badcrc said:
    I have never seen such unscientific rubbish as in that last jim davis post. Where do I begin ?

    lasers are silent and don't make any noise
    CD players don't scratch disks - they are read by lasers
    LEDs are not 'hard on pre-amps'
    yanking out LEDs - WHAT ?
    preamps are sweeter without LEDs - good lord !

    'Marantz has a control to Turn all leds off on their player because it clearly makes the machine sound better' - if there is such a switch, it's probably because some folk find LEDs on equalizers etc distracting.

    As a graduate physicist who worked for many years in electrical engineering (mainly computers and digital electronics), I am truly amazed the all the rubbish this guy churns out.

    Well Doctor, Now that you probably been to the Marantz Site, and made a rather public spectical of your bed side manner, I am sure many await your further wisdom on the subjective//intuitive subject of knowing things you have not even researched. May i suggest you reach into the apology shelf
    for a resolution

    PS My name is Mr. Davis not to be prefixed with rubbish along the way.
    PSS there is a whole industry built around taking scratches off CD's almost every library system
    And Hi End music seller has expensive machinery and a craftsman to operate it.
    As they scratch very easily on and out of their travels to a CD tray


    have a good one
    Last edited by jim davis; 11 Jun 2020 at 00:14.
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  7. Posts : 191
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       #37

    wither 2 said:
    I have limited time today but I now understand the USB flash drive connection to your player and that it needs an amp for output to speakers. How are you connecting to the PC?

    I am putting CD's in the Comp cd tray and trying to rip them to make lossless files, and make my single legal copy to put on a 128 GB flash stick, that plugs into the front of the stand alone CD player box that also will take a Flash drive, then by RCA cable to a pre amp then by RCA Cable to a power amp ETC.


    But as the title of this thread suggests-------I can not get windows 7 ripping to work consistently,
    but/which i have somehow gotten to work right on and off, I.E rip lossless files. walking towards the computer never knowing if it will or will not rip a CD, is ridiculous


    Stay safe out there, even tho its getting very irritating in this heat wearing a sweaty mask
    Last edited by jim davis; 11 Jun 2020 at 00:20.
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  8. Posts : 2,246
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       #38

    Okay. Somehow I thought you were connecting the Marantz to your computer but appears not to be the case.

    Apparently, the Marantz got in here because when you added files to a USB stick and played them from the stick in your Marantz, the "titles?"' aren't showing up but you can play the files. Do I have that correct?

    Long ago I asked about copy protection and you said there was none. As a result, I'm assuming these are not commercial discs. Where do these discs come from?
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  9. Posts : 191
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       #39

    Dear Mr. Wither
    please excuse my getting back late to you on this, it was not out of disrespect
    the cd's I buy most times come from ebay. I have boycotted amazon cause my bible says have "no other gods before me"
    other files are hi res i buy one place or another.
    some are squenced up mp 3's but sound great despite the beating they took getting that way.
    I have never owned a cd that you could not make your one free legal copy from, except my one free legal copy goes on to a flash drive, then to my marantz USB input on front of player.
    many times I run a RCA cable from my comp audio out to my pre amp, which then goes to my power "switching" amp that has 2 million, 8 hundred thousand Plus over sampling, then on to speakers
    (BadCRC you might wanna study this sampling subject before making any decrees about it)
    its odd Mr Wither,
    but on my system, mp 4's in 720, coming in off the computer sound almost as warm/good as vinyl records sometimes.
    you have been most kind opening computer doors for me, and really, I am most thankful.
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  10. Posts : 191
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       #40

    OK Folks
    the short of it is, the very fine Mr Torchwood suggested i down load the NCH ripper which turned out to be a real nice program that bloomed into nag ware from hell after a few uses, as a matter of fact, well never mind.
    But it seems to have reset my WMP settings, cause after deleted the NCH nag ware and then going into programs on my c drive and pulling out many NCH left overs of dubious cause and worry that Don't Uninstall at least on my machine-
    The WMP ripped cd's fine.
    So I mark this thread Solved and am so very thankful for the journey or maze, or psychiatric intervention
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