Hi, my Vintage Fisher has three meters one centers on a station being in tune, one sweeps to the right to show signal strength, and one marked Deviation which moves along with the program meterial but not like an vu meter. I have an idea that there is a difernent information given by this meter, but not sure what. Thanks again for any help - Guycom |
Guycom: Here's a thread from the Audio Asylum/Vintage Asylum that mentions the deviation meter ... The KT8300 is the only tuner I know, (well, besides the KT-917/600T) that has the cool deviation meter. This is great for understanding the quality of broadcast stations. The ones where the meter sits at 100% are basically compressing the life out of the music. On other stations, I see the meter bounce between 0 and 90, which is what you want for good dynamic range. Regards, Rich |
Rich wins the prize this time. Deviation meter does indeed show you how far the station is deviating from center. Less deviation generally = lower distortion but lower overall audio level. Hence, we compress and limit the signal. Eldartford: Nice try, but center tuned is almost never the best spot. I've seen one tuner--ONE!--where center tuner was actually the best spot. The rest were all out of alignment. |
