[Charles Calkins]

I gotta stop playing LP's. There is something with the pitch and playback that my dog can't stand. When I play an LP he wants to go outside. I mean desperately!!!. Even after I've quit playing an LP I have a very hard time getting him to come back inside. It might take an hour or so to get him back inside. Treats don't do it! He just won't come back in!!
Goofy dog!! Anybody else have this problem with a dog???


                                        Cheers
                                        Charlie

[woodsyi]

No.  My 8 year old Lab/Rott just plops down on the sofa and chills.

[chosenhandle]

Have you tried playing "you ain't nothin but a hound dog" or something he might relate better to? Maybe its your choice of music.

[jose]

Your system must be producing frequencies that we humans can't hear but the dog can (somewhere in the 23,000-45,000 Hz range).

[Charles Calkins]

chosenhandle:

  He relates to "Please daddy don't get drunk this Christmas"

                             Cheers
                            Charlie

[Charles Calkins]

Jose:

    Don't have this problem when I play CD's

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                                  Charlie

[SET Man]

Your system must be producing frequencies that we humans can't hear but the dog can (somewhere in the 23,000-45,000 Hz range).

Hey!

    Yup, I think that is the case.

   Charlie, BTW... is your speaker have a metal tweeter? And you are using ss amp right? And what cart you do use. Just wonder, but I could be wrong

    Maybe there is a resonant somewhere up there with your system that cause this.

    BTW... my family chihuahua and cat seem find when I listen to my vinyl. Usually my cat Mr. Bubble will come in and chill with me and I think cat do have a much higher hearing than dog.

    Well, on the bright side maybe this is a good indication that your system could produce ultrasonic.

Take care,
Buddy

[Rashiki]

Charlie:

Do you still have your supertweeters plugged in? If so, try to unplug 'em and see how your dog reacts. His high-frequency hearing is probably much better than ours.

 -Rob

[texendo]

just get a different dog.

[Charles Calkins]

texendo:

 Get a different life.

                     Cheers
                     Charlie

[TheChairGuy]

Charlie -

I love this post...I've heard a lot of reasons for getting out of vinyl, but yours is truly unique!

CD has a brickwall filter at 19,200 cycles.....vinyl doesn't.  If you have a supertweeter, or even extended range tweeters and you play vinyl, you're dog will actually hear that which we (ie., humans) can only 'feel' or sense.

Your dog may be hearing an unnatural treble peak in the post-20Khz range.  What cartridge are you using again? - and what is your MM section loaded at (47K) and what is the total capacitance of all cables from your cartridge to your phono stage?  Seriously, the fix for your dog might well be properly electrically damping your cartridge so the sound is pleasing to him or her.

Ha - damping a cartridge so that your dog can stand or enjoy it - man, that's rich.  Either I am or you are INSANE 

John

[mrdon]

I gotta stop playing LP's. There is something with the pitch and playback that my dog can't stand. When I play an LP he wants to go outside. I mean desperately!!!. Even after I've quit playing an LP I have a very hard time getting him to come back inside. It might take an hour or so to get him back inside.                               

You must be using an AT440MLa for a cartridge. LOL! 

[rabpaul]

TCG,

Who uses brickwall filters now with the advent of up/oversampling, Non-OS DACs have no filters.
Vinyl has to use RIAA Eq i.e lower frequencies are recorded at lower volumes while the higher frequencies are recorded at higher volumes and this is reversed on playback i.e a curve with these coordinates +20dB@20Hz, 0dB@1Khz, -20dB@20Khz. Nothing higher than 20Hz is put on vinyl (RIAA being the reason) However there are harmonics created by vinyl that in all likelyhood will exceed 20KHz.
So on paper CD is 22.05Khz while Vinyl is 20Khz. As KP would say No Big.

Charlie,
Reduce your playing volume to very very low and then slowly increase to see when your dog begins to react. You may just be playing too loud for his tastes (ears).

[lonewolfny42]

I gotta stop playing LP's. There is something with the pitch and playback that my dog can't stand. When I play an LP he wants to go outside. I mean desperately!!!. Even after I've quit playing an LP I have a very hard time getting him to come back inside. It might take an hour or so to get him back inside. Treats don't do it! He just won't come back in!!

Problem solved Charlie....pour him a martini.....



Good luck.......


                               Chris