Disklavier

Greetings kenmortgages,

i tend to stay away from Radio Schlock stuff because most of it is
crap but they do have a nice little mixer for about $39 that matches
impedances and allows reasonable control over gain. of course, they
require you to add a power supply to it for another $25 if you buy it
from them, but it will run on almost any DC wall wart over about 5
volts.

i do prefer the stuff made by Radio Design Labs. they have some really
nice little mixers and also a passive combiner that is useful. you can
find their stuff on E-Bay for about 20% of list price. i just got
about $350 worth of stuff for a project for $49 this included a mike
preamp with huge gain. their stuff is much cleaner than the RS models.

Monday, January 11, 2010, 2:53:22 PM, you wrote: >   


> --- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, Scott Jackson <scottwaynejackson@...> wrote:
>>
>> Ken,
>> You should be able to do that. Can you give any more details, like what 
>> is the 'pre-amp' that you mention, type & length of cables, type of 
>> input on the stereo?
>> 
>> Scott Jackson
>> 
> Thanks Scott, Carol, Pianobench & Dirk

> The pre-amp was just an inexpensive Tandy job. Its main function is
> to enable a turntable input to the main stereo.

> I kept the cables to 1.5 metres (a little under 5 feet) and the
> inputs I have available are Auxiliary, Video and Tape. I tried them
> all to no avail. I'm pretty sure that Carol is correct - the XG
> output is not normal audio but I'm not sure it's a digital output either.

> I also followed up on Carol's advice and borrowed a reasonable
> quality (Creative Gigabyte T40) set of powered speakers. These
> worked after a fashion, but the reproduction is very "tinny". I
> modified some midi files to change volume, velocity (very touchy on
> some piano parts as we know) and fiddled the balance. My partner has
> a sharp ear and told me the resulting ensemble sounds were worse
> than some of my practice sessions.  

> Yamaha Australia isn't very helpful with advice either, but I did
> track down a Yamaha MSP3 at a large music outlet (apparently they
> are now superseded) for about AUD375 - twice what they are in the US
> on the web. I'm going to have a look and listen later in the week.
> JBL also has a monitor speaker that might work, and it's about $250.

> Any more suggestions are welcome!

> 
 

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