I once thought the same thing. When I first made the transition from vinyl to digital music. It hurt my ears. I had never experienced that before. I would listen to my mixes that I had recorded via my turntables in the same headphones and my ears didn't hurt. But whenever I'd spin music I got off of beatport they would. That led me to believe that because of better frequency range, and the fact that I hadn't gotten used to it, my ears hurt. Maybe that frequency can blow speakers too.

What are you talking about Ryan? If it's hurting your ears, turn it down.

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Originally posted by DJRYAN™ I once thought the same thing. When I first made the transition from vinyl to digital music. It hurt my ears. I had never experienced that before. I would listen to my mixes that I had recorded via my turntables in the same headphones and my ears didn't hurt. But whenever I'd spin music I got off of beatport they would. That led me to believe that because of better frequency range, and the fact that I hadn't gotten used to it, my ears hurt. Maybe that frequency can blow speakers too.

You hadn't listened to a CD before?

Or do you mean when you started using MP3s? If they were poor quality MP3s then the digital distortion may have been what was hurting your ears.

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On the original topic...

While I'm convinced this guy is talking out of his arse, theoretically you COULD end up with some unwanted high frequencies in the output signal.

This is how:

Although the digital signal only stores frequencies of up to 22kHz (or 48kHz in a system with a sample rate of 96kHz - the maximum frequency is always half the sample rate), the data is just passed around as 'numbers' until it's actually needed as an analogue signal. This happens at the output of the last digital component - in this case the DJM2000.

If the last digital-to-analogue converter (which will be on the output of the DJM2000) is a big crock of shite, it could suffer from clock noise... the clock in these things can be several hundred MHz, so that frequency can get dropped onto your signal line.

But even the cheapest systems should have a low-pass filter on the output of the digital circuitry to get rid of anything out of the range of human hearing - that includes Pioneer mixers, even if their sound quality is fairly rubbish at the best of times.

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I wonder how much longer it will be until we see dj equipment with word clocks built in or atleast a connection to an external clock. Or possibly better D/A convertors. Both would help.

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Originally posted by Brandt Slater I wonder how much longer it will be until we see dj equipment with word clocks built in or atleast a connection to an external clock. Or possibly better D/A convertors. Both would help.

S/PDIF uses a word clock...

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I mean a word clock in which you can tie the mixer, cdj, computer, into one source (master clock) so everything clocks at one rate. It eliminates all the crap like noise, jitters, and data errors. Basically an Apogee Big Ben for dj gear.

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Originally posted by DJRYAN™ I once thought the same thing. When I first made the transition from vinyl to digital music. It hurt my ears. I had never experienced that before. I would listen to my mixes that I had recorded via my turntables in the same headphones and my ears didn't hurt. But whenever I'd spin music I got off of beatport they would. That led me to believe that because of better frequency range, and the fact that I hadn't gotten used to it, my ears hurt. Maybe that frequency can blow speakers too.

what was hurting you was your own beliefs, nothing else.
you are out of your mind, and not in touch with reality what so ever.
half your post are completely retarded the rest are just fucking missinformation. easy down on the ecstasy bro.

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Originally posted by clay what was hurting you was your own beliefs, nothing else. you are out of your mind, and not in touch with reality what so ever. half your post are completely retarded the rest are just fucking missinformation. easy down on the ecstasy bro.

how can you take it easy on the ecstasy if your throwing pills at everyone

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audio signals were not made to destroy speakers, only if you set the volume to high, kinda obvious dont u think

nothing is logical in the magic world of unicorns, rainbows and trance.