Proms 2007

[diapason]

I have a Toshiba 28 inch CRT TV which has an optical output but also a Technomate 1000D with audio output. Tomorrow's Proms at 6.30 feature Elgar and my son will be singing in the performance at the Albert Hall (yes, really!!) so I thought to record it at this end. The sound quality from both the Tosh and the Techno is comparable but the level is greater from the Technomate.

So here is the setup - Technomate connected to amplifier and the output from that into a Sony minidisc. There is a digital output from the Technomate but there seems to be only one RCA phono style socket and it doesn't seem to be optical, as far as I can tell, whereas the Toshiba TV has an optical output. Either way the sound quality is brilliant!! I wonder if anyone can tell me how to get left and right channels from one RCA socket?

Photo of my setup attached - Technomate 1000D, attached to 2 dishes and 3 LNBs on the front of the house, facing south,Nikko amplifier, Toshiba 28 inch CRT TV (at the right of the pic), Sony CD player, Philips DVD, TEAC open reel tape recorder, Sony cassette recorder and all inter-wired so we might have an explosion any minute!!

[BGonaSTICK]

According to the Techno manual, there is both a left and right audio RCA cinch on the rear panel - page 10, items 3 & 4 - as well as an S/PDIF output. The latter may not be much use to you, because there is naff-all 5.1 digital audio up there.

[diapason]

I've got the left and right RCA audio output alright and that's what will be used to record but there is only one S/PDIF socket and the manual doesn't explain what comes out of it.

[BGonaSTICK]

OK. I get you.

S/PDIF as a hardware connection standard isn't constrained by any particular A/V standard, but as far as satellite is concerned it's usually used for DD5.1/AC3 which you'll only find as an option on a few channels. Premiere movie channels for example.

[SAT-WORLD]

Originally Posted by diapason

I have a Toshiba 28 inch CRT TV which has an optical output but also a Technomate 1000D with audio output. Tomorrow's Proms at 6.30 feature Elgar and my son will be singing in the performance at the Albert Hall (yes, really!!) so I thought to record it at this end. The sound quality from both the Tosh and the Techno is comparable but the level is greater from the Technomate.

What he singing,so we can keep an eye out,Diapason?
You must be real proud of him.
Congratulations to you both!

[BGonaSTICK]

Yes, wish your son the best of luck from us lot! :clap:

[diapason]

Thanks everyone for your good wishes. The performance was on Saturday of Elgar's "The Apostles" and the quality of the music was excellent. The sound quality through my Technomate was also excellent through the left and right RCA sockets and I could feel the 32 foot "rumble" from the lowest stop on the Albert Hall Organ in my very living room! I recorded it all on minidisc, played it into my computer using Nero Wave Editor and then turned that into a CD using Nero Burning ROM, purely as a family souvenir of course.

The interesting thing was that the WAV file produced on first recording did not show the usual compression you get with FM Radio with its very distinct cutoff - it resembled the easy and spiky waveform that I get when recording live with a microphone, so very little compression is done by the BBC on their satellite radio and the frequency response was pretty wide. (hope I'm allowed to tell you all this!!)

[BGonaSTICK]

:clap: Fantastic!

The Technomate is a stunning little box for the money. It's nice to hear of it being used to its full potential.

[diapason]

I never can resist a challenge!!