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Troubleshooting 19
Troubleshooting
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Owner’s Reference
NuWave Phono Converter
the NPC enabled, you can no longer set or change the sample rate or bit depth on the NPC front panel
display. This restriction applies to both PCM and DSD data. The restriction exists because as soon
as you enable the USB option on the NPC and connected it to the PC, you have effectively disabled
the front panel control of the NPC and given that control to the computer. This is because the NPC is
now a slave device and the computer becomes the master device.
Follow the instructions in this manual to set the sample rate and bit depth of PCM (sample rate of DSD)
on your PC.
Once you disable the USB option on the NPC display, master control of the A/D Converter returns to
the NPC itself. Please see the instructions for setting the sample rates and bit depths in this manual.
When recording through a typical computer based program like Audacity, the program records
everything, including the spaces between the tracks of the record or tape. There is no way for the
program to know one track has started or stopped. Unless you have a program that handles this
automatically (there are a few but be careful they don’t rob you of the low detail surface noise of the
record) you must take the time to cut the tracks up into individual files and name them before making
your CD, DVD or hard drive based album for later playback.
Most recordings you are likely to make, either in PCM or DSD, will most likely be in the WAV format,
the most common of the uncompressed formats. WAV files will not support cover art or fancy naming
schemes to look nice. WAV files are pretty crude in their ability to give you anything other than great
sounding music.
If it’s important to have cover art and good looking titles, you might consider as an alternative AIFF or
ALAC (for Mac) or FLAC for Windows. These file types are lossless and support the metadata needed
for cover art and good looking tiles of tracks and numbering schemes.
If the turntable setup sounds thin or bright, you may have forgotten to set the cartridge load resistors
on the back panel of the NPC. Refer to the section on setting the cartridge loading and remember,
the less resistance load you have set on the cartridge, the thinner the system will sound. There is a
perfect setting for each cartridge and it is ok to experiment.
The LP recording
doesn’t show the
tracks!
How do I get
cover art?
What if my
turntable sounds
bright?
