Improving Receptor response

[fedde]

Hi folks,

I just did a little experiment on my Receptor. While I was playing with the output settings of my main snapshot (Mr Ray 73, Ivory, VB3 etc.) I noticed a difference in response when I turned off the S/P DIF output of the master bus. So the master bus only goes to analog output 1 & 2 now. I repeated this for all snapshot programs. The difference is relatively subtle, but to my ears and hands disabling the S/P dif output improves the latency and feel.

Any thoughts on this? Do you notice the same?

Fedde

ps. I noticed that some of my channels were clipping (in extreme playing conditions ). I never payed too much notice to this, but I fixed that too. Some of my VSTs need to be set to 60% of volume to not clip.

[Bryan@MuseResearch]

Hi folks,

I just did a little experiment on my Receptor. While I was playing with the output settings of my main snapshot (Mr Ray 73, Ivory, VB3 etc.) I noticed a difference in response when I turned off the S/P DIF output of the master bus. So the master bus only goes to analog output 1 & 2 now. I repeated this for all snapshot programs. The difference is relatively subtle, but to my ears and hands disabling the S/P dif output improves the latency and feel.

Any thoughts on this? Do you notice the same?

Fedde

ps. I noticed that some of my channels were clipping (in extreme playing conditions ). I never payed too much notice to this, but I fixed that too. Some of my VSTs need to be set to 60% of volume to not clip.

Architecturally, the SPDIF output is an entirely different tributary than the analog audio outputs (hence their ability to be assigned separately from the stereo outputs) so I can't think of any engineering reason why the outputs would have any affect whether they were enabled or not. In the listening tests I've done, i've never noticed any changes in level or character of the audio when the SPDIF was enabled, or for that matter, un-enabled...

Although I've spent plenty of time behind a mixing console doing critical listening, perhaps I'm just not hearing what you're hearing. Can you describe in more detail what you mean by "difference in response"?

Was the SPDIF output connected to anything? If so, there might have been some influence occurring in your listening environment due to the presence or absence of the SPDIF signal... just a thought...

Interested to hear more about this, but I'm quite sure that removing the feed to the SPDIF driver cannot affect the outputs on the Receptor side of things...

All the best

groovology

[fedde]

Hi groovology,

Thanks for your reaction. I didn't mean that there was a difference in sound quality. I just feel that my Receptor responds a bit more directly and with a more constant timing when I disable the S/P-DIF. I don't use the S/P-DIF output so this is no problem for me. You can notice it more easily while playing quickly three notes (e.g. Gb - G - Bb) with even timing in a loop. This gets easier without S/P-DIF.

Because the digital output is physically different to the analog, maybe a little bit more time is used to send the data thus causing some delays? I own the Receptor B version, so maybe this effect is less on more modern versions.

Ciao,

Fedde

[fedde]

Just wondering, did anyone else try muting the S/P-dif???

Ciao,

Fedde