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I didn't say you were using tape. Do they not make receivers with a "Tape Monitor Output" anymore?
Usually a receiver has a set of 4 RCA jacks that are for a "tape loop", whatever you want to call it, where one pair is an input and one is an output, and they are connected to a "tape monitor switch". Back in the old days, you could listen to the tape playback 1/2 second after it was just recorded with the "tape monitor" - and to feed the tape deck the signal, the receiver has a set of fixed level outputs to run into the recorder. I was saying to find these output jacks (tape out, tape monitor, whatever) to get a clean signal without hiss.
If the Pioneer headphone out is bad, cheap, defective, it will give you hiss from any source. The tape monitor usually includes an un-amplified line level out signal, that will sound closer to the source than to the awful headphone out.
Amps do burn in - the capacitors need to form and settle (chemical slurry passing electrons though it will change). The Caffeine sounded very good out of the box, but it will sound better as it ages. Trust me on that. This is a good thing, so don't sweat it.
Just go look for that line-level output on the back of the Pioneer now, and get a cable to connect the RCA jacks to your Caffeine.
Originally Posted by Buster Sword /img/forum/go_quote.gif TAPE out? NO i just mean that as a figure of speech. The sound is tape hiss but i'm not using a tape!! God no, tape is like outdated. Even Vinyl is worthy but tape is not. Yes it is from the headphone out, its on all sources, tv, dvd, pc All of them have hiss on the heaphone out. What opamp is on the vsx-815 anyways? it sure stinks I wonder if it will be better if i bought a $1500 Pioneer receiver? And are you serious? Why does my amp have to burn in? I can understand drivers because they need to "stretch" But an amp? |
I didn't say you were using tape. Do they not make receivers with a "Tape Monitor Output" anymore?
Usually a receiver has a set of 4 RCA jacks that are for a "tape loop", whatever you want to call it, where one pair is an input and one is an output, and they are connected to a "tape monitor switch". Back in the old days, you could listen to the tape playback 1/2 second after it was just recorded with the "tape monitor" - and to feed the tape deck the signal, the receiver has a set of fixed level outputs to run into the recorder. I was saying to find these output jacks (tape out, tape monitor, whatever) to get a clean signal without hiss.
If the Pioneer headphone out is bad, cheap, defective, it will give you hiss from any source. The tape monitor usually includes an un-amplified line level out signal, that will sound closer to the source than to the awful headphone out.
Amps do burn in - the capacitors need to form and settle (chemical slurry passing electrons though it will change). The Caffeine sounded very good out of the box, but it will sound better as it ages. Trust me on that. This is a good thing, so don't sweat it.
Just go look for that line-level output on the back of the Pioneer now, and get a cable to connect the RCA jacks to your Caffeine.