Re: Accidental AudioStrobe?
Hello jcarruth and Welcome!
Here is some info on that.
Re: Accidental AudioStrobe?
Thanks, Andy.
Any idea why the Zen Master "reveals" a little pulse sound over the music (on both AS & regular CDs - the sandpaper sound I mentioned) and the AudioStrobes played on a regular CD player do not?
jcarruth
Re: Accidental AudioStrobe?
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jcarruth
Any idea why the Zen Master "reveals" a little pulse sound over the music (on both AS & regular CDs - the sandpaper sound I mentioned) and the AudioStrobes played on a regular CD player do not?
I have no idea. I know nothing about the Zen Master device.
Re: Accidental AudioStrobe?
Any frequencies in the range of 19.2khz will trigger AudioStrobe. Many times cymbals and hihats will trigger for instance. I would guess on the Zen Master that its DAC (digital audio converter) or amplifier section is clipping at very high frequencies and that is what you are hearing. It is a defect in the audio chain. That is the most likely scenario.
Of course, if the cds are not commercial, that is you made them from CDRs, then that could be a factor. I had a cheap portable CD player that would do this with burned CDs but not commercial ones, for whatever reason. I suspected it was iTunes encoding but never really investigated fully.
Re: Accidental AudioStrobe?
"Turbosonic" uses somewhat lower frequencies than AudioStrobe to encode the lights; Mind Gear chose this approach at the time as it was commonly believed that AudioStrobe had a patent on the use of 19.2 kHz, but only on that carrier frequency. The Belgian company Psychomed used a similar approach with their Dreamer and other devices (17.5 and 18.5 kHz). So, that lower carrier frequency means that it was more likely to produce false triggers from cymbals and other high frequency audio content than AudioStrobe.