VU Meters

[Techno Commander]

Are they allowed if they use valves? :D

Available Here (http://www.nixiekits.eu/?utm_source=TubeClockDB&utm_medium=web&utm_term=TubeClockDB&utm_campaign=TubeClockDB)

http://vimeo.com/32350797


And Here (http://www.nixiekits.eu/?utm_source=TubeClockDB&utm_medium=web&utm_term=TubeClockDB&utm_campaign=TubeClockDB)

http://vimeo.com/41258140


Or would you prefer a spectrum analyser? :eyebrows:

http://vimeo.com/94688734

[Barry]

Apart from their use in setting up the correct signal levels when making a recording, VU meters are of no use whatsoever when attached to power amplifiers: they are distracting, uninformative, insufficiently accurate and a waste of money. Even pretty blue ones!

If you want to be distracted by a visual display, you can always hook up a "plasma globe" to your system:

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[walpurgis]

Apart from their use in setting up the correct signal levels when making a recording, VU meters are of no use whatsoever when attached to power amplifiers

Yup! :)

[awkwardbydesign]

Are they allowed if they use valves? :D

Available Here (http://www.nixiekits.eu/?utm_source=TubeClockDB&utm_medium=web&utm_term=TubeClockDB&utm_campaign=TubeClockDB)

http://vimeo.com/32350797


And Here (http://www.nixiekits.eu/?utm_source=TubeClockDB&utm_medium=web&utm_term=TubeClockDB&utm_campaign=TubeClockDB)

http://vimeo.com/41258140


Or would you prefer a spectrum analyser? :eyebrows:

http://vimeo.com/94688734
Oh yes. Cool trumps useful every time.

[spendorman]

I like these:

http://www.vuplayer.com/other.php

Great fun

[Beobloke]

Apart from their use in setting up the correct signal levels when making a recording, VU meters are of no use whatsoever when attached to power amplifiers: they are distracting, uninformative, insufficiently accurate and a waste of money. Even pretty blue ones!

Well, I have read some rubbish on the internet in my time, but this really takes the biscuit. I have never come across a statement that is more blatantly ridiculous and untrue.

Everyone knows perfectly well that ANY VU meters on any of your components improve the sound immensely, providing of course that they are correctly oriented (none of this upside-down nonsense) and that they are an essential feature in any audiophile's rack. Ideally, you should have them on your preamp, your power amp, your cassette deck and your tuner (yes, there are tuners out there with Built-in VU meters) PLUS an add-on unit like the Technics SH-9020 which is just two VU meters in a big box. I used to have one of the latter and my system has never sounded the same since I got rid of it.

Final proof if you need it - here are two B&O cassette decks:

Beocord 1900: http://beocentral.com/beocord1900

Beocord 2400: http://beocentral.com/beocord2400cassette

I have owned more than one example of both and I can vouch for the well-known fact that the 2400 sounds better than the 1900. Why is this? Is it that the 2400 has metal tape capability and better circuitry/head with a better frequency response? No - not at all. It's simply because the 1900's VU meters only function in Record mode, whereas the 2400's operate in playback mode as well.

Case closed! :D

[Firebottle]

:laugh::exactly::rfl:

[Macca]

Good post Adam. It's a fact that declining sales of hi-fi are directly linked to the lack of VU meters in modern products. When will these people wake up to reality?

[Gordon Steadman]

:laugh::exactly::rfl:


So where are they then???

A volume control I can see, a switch, some fuse covers. Admittedly there are some meters but they only move for bias. Where are the ones that leap about in time with the music?

[sumday]

a few years back during the plasma globe goldrush, my wife got me one as a xmas prezzie.
not entirely aware of the science behind these things but I did notice after a good play the damn thing made the muscle's in my forearm ache.

although I might have imagined it I was pretty sure it was the cause.........any thoughts??

nige.

[Gordon Steadman]

a few years back during the plasma globe goldrush, my wife got me one as a xmas prezzie.
not entirely aware of the science behind these things but I did notice after a good play the damn thing made the muscle's in my forearm ache.

although I might have imagined it I was pretty sure it was the cause.........any thoughts??

nige.

I think you are supposed to fix them to the wall or stand them on something rather than hold them up.:mental:

[Mr Kipling]

Well, I have read some rubbish on the internet in my time, but this really takes the biscuit. I have never come across a statement that is more blatantly ridiculous and untrue.

Everyone knows perfectly well that ANY VU meters on any of your components improve the sound immensely, providing of course that they are correctly oriented (none of this upside-down nonsense) and that they are an essential feature in any audiophile's rack. Ideally, you should have them on your preamp, your power amp, your cassette deck and your tuner (yes, there are tuners out there with Built-in VU meters) PLUS an add-on unit like the Technics SH-9020 which is just two VU meters in a big box. I used to have one of the latter and my system has never sounded the same since I got rid of it.

Final proof if you need it - here are two B&O cassette decks:

Beocord 1900: http://beocentral.com/beocord1900

Beocord 2400: http://beocentral.com/beocord2400cassette

I have owned more than one example of both and I can vouch for the well-known fact that the 2400 sounds better than the 1900. Why is this? Is it that the 2400 has metal tape capability and better circuitry/head with a better frequency response? No - not at all. It's simply because the 1900's VU meters only function in Record mode, whereas the 2400's operate in playback mode as well.

Case closed! :D

At last. The voice of reason.