Topic: V3 > HD-P2 Analog in question

[Brian Skalinder]

the V3's A/D (@ 24 bit) is very smooth and natural.  at first, its a bit underwhelming.  and then you realize why its underwhelming is because it's not adding anything (or taking anything away) from the signal.  just a very accurate representation of the original signal.

I frequently struggle to put into words what I hear and like in the V3's ADC.  I often get lost in trying to detail specific sonic characteristics, and at which I ultimately often fail.  Thanks for putting into words what I've so often failed to do in my own head (and by extension into words on TS).

[AlexG]

sorry guys, no comp yet.  we had it all set up, with V3 > analog > my HD-P2, and V3 > digi > Rob's HD-P2.
but the +19 dBu the unbalanced analog output (with XLR > RCA cables) when the V3's 0dBfs light went on was too much for the HD-P2 too handle.  without the attenuators, either I would have been clipping all over place, or Rob's V3 > digi > HD-P2 levels would have been very low.  so, I think we need to figure out what the max analog signal is to clip the HD-P2 when running line in.  and then get some appropriate attenuators to run between the V3 and the HD-P2, so we can do an accurate comp...

Interesting I did not have this problem when I went XLR-> RCA in.  I just had one light blinking on the V3 and the levels were fine on the P2.

were you running another deck from the digital output on the V3 ??  I could have lowered the gain on the V3 and I would have been fine on the HD-P2 (analog out from the V3).  but then the other HD-P2 (V3 > S/PDIF out > HD-P2) would have had much lower levels.

No I wasn't running another deck out of the digi out so now I understand the issue.  I think you are going to need two v3s to do this correctly.