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Vibration Source?

Hello Goners. I haven't been able to find any discussions that address this topic, so here goes: As you go up the fidelity chain, in terms of resolution, do any of you encounter vibrations coming from the speakers that seem to be in the recordings themselves? I have a CD only system, and I detect vibrations in about one in ten or so CDs (usually old ones,) but only on certain tracks. The vibrations come from different speakers, depending on the track, but usually in the mid range. The vibrations on any given track sound to be tied to a specific instrument in every case. For example, in a clean electric guitar part, it's as if the vibration is coming from the guitar amp that was used to make the track, not from an issue with my speaker. However the problem pops up with piano and acoustic bass as well. If I put the same CD in my stock car system, it comes across as low level noise, not vibrations. But I rarely seem to encounter any low level white noise at home, only vibrations coming from specific instruments in a track.  Thanks for your insights.
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masi61
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Just curious if the “vibration” through the speakers is your system trying to resolve some detail on certain recordings and being unable to unveil the detail due to some system deficiency. When you said the same passage comes across as just “noise” on your car stereo that also made me think that the system is falling down, not necessarily the recording. 

I don’t know what CD player you are using or what preamp, amp or integrated amp or what interconnects you are using but my gut tells me that they could play a role. 

Can you take the noisy recording to your local brick & mortar audio dealer and ask to audition that same track on some premium gear? Then you would have some points of comparison. 

Could you you tell us what CD specifically and what tracks you are experiencing this? 

I listened to CD for many years over a highly veiled system - NAD 2200 amp, with a little portable SONY D5 CD player and I would enjoy the basic structure of my recordings but always knew that the undefined “vibration” that I heard on my favorite tracks was a lack of revolving power from my system components. Forgive me if I’m wrong here - this is mostly some speculation by me.


kenjit
1,771 posts
 
Do I need to hire someone with "golden ears" to come by and tell me what the problem is?
yes you do but you live too far away for me to visit. 

it could be your ears or just bad speakers. Most speakers are bad. 
kenjit
1,771 posts
 
Tell us what the track is so we can see if we hear the same thing you describe.
clearthink
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Really I do not think any one here understands what it is that you are talking regarding.
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millercarbon
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If I put the same CD in my stock car system, it comes across as low level noise, not vibrations.

This is what gets me. So there’s some sound that is definitely there on the CD, you can hear it in the car, but it sounds different at home.

This I believe is what we call situation normal.

Main thing I want to know is what is the exact nature of this "noise"? Is it ringing? Rattling? Clanging? Scraping? You call it noise in the car and describe it almost as if its steady white noise, but in the home the same sound you call it vibrations? If its associated only with certain instruments and frequencies then its a distortion of some kind and the question is, what?
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