Subject: Re: CD player From: Monita Chatterjee <mchatterjee@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:37:14 -0500 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Deniz Baskent suggests a high-end CD player by Tascam, which she and her colleagues found to be relatively distortion free. Normally, we play things via Edirol external sound card in the lab..but at the moment for this experiment it seems like we'll need a free-standing audio player of some sort. I'll take all your input into account -- many thanks, all! mc M Chatterjee, Ph.D. Director, Cochlear Implants and Psychophysics Laboratory Associate Professor, Hearing and Speech Sciences, 0100 LeFrak Hall University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 (301) 405 7716 http://www.bsos.umd.edu/hesp/facultyStaff/chatterjeem.htm >>> Stefan Strahl <stefan.strahl@xxxxxxxx> 01/27/10 11:16 AM >>> Another idea would be to use a portable audio player that can play lossless audio formats like WAV or FLAC. For example the SanDisk Sansa Fuze can play WAV and FLAC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansa_Fuze). Or use an iPod together with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockbox :) :) stefan On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Bob Masta <audio@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 27 Jan 2010 at 7:49, Monita Chatterjee wrote: > >> Dear List, >> >> We have a need for a CD player to play audio files (6 >> kHz BW) for an OAE experiment. Is there a particular >> kind of player I should look for? how would a $40 home >> CD player, for instance, compare with fancy stuff you >> can get for hundreds of $$? Stimuli will be steady-state >> and modulated, simple noise and more complex.. > > Cheap players may have more mains hum, in my experience, > but it's hard to make a general rule based on selling > price. > > If you are controlling the experiment with a computer, you > may find it a lot simpler to generate stimuli with the > sound card. You can use my Daqarta for Windows software > (free for signal generation uses) to generate signals in > real-time. It can produce a broad range of waveforms > (inlcuding arbitrary ones you define) and modulation types, > and you can create extremely complex signals by using > signals as modulators for other signals. > > Let me know if you want advice about applying Daqarta to > your particular needs. > > Best regards, > > Bob Masta > > D A Q A R T A > Data AcQuisition And Real-Time Analysis > www.daqarta.com > Scope, Spectrum, Spectrogram, Signal Generator > Science with your sound card! >