Please share your experiences or thoughts related to the poor quality of the voice call outs on my all original TAF. Wondering if spkrs, soundboard, or ROM files?

What I am hearing is really scratchy, almost staticky sounding Gomez voice. music is fine, thus I tend to think speakers are OK. I swear when I play TAF at local bars the voice callouts sound so much clearer. Thinking about pinsound soundboard, but then how do I get original audio callouts? Could this be a "re cap" the soundboard project? Would new audio ROM be worth a try? Appreciate all inputs, someone has likely experienced & addressed this.

Thanks!

Mike

Thank you, figured that. Anyone experience with the sound board being the culprit? Leaky caps potentially influencing sound quality/clarity?

mike

One additional thought/question - any chance that the TAF "GOLD" ROM being released a number of years later provided more bandwidth? i.e. less compression of the audio clips, thus better sound quality?

Or did they likely use the same exact files/tech as the 1992 ROM?

thanks

mike

Thanks! The only remaining culprit, aside from bad speakers, is the sound board. I know I have heard clearer callouts on other TAF pins, so that has to be the area the degradation is occurring. Mike

jahbarron, I was with you on that. But having played a ton of TAF at 3 different locations over the past 4 months in prep for deciding to buy one. There is no doubt that some sound clearer than others, which is what caught my attention. I get they are very small likely compressed audio files. but any limitation/leakiness on the analog portions of the sound board/amplifier may likely make it worse

I will re cap the sound board and update this to let you all know if that in fact made a difference

thanks

mike

Thanks Darkstar1234, a pin sound sound card upgrade is definitely on the table. The only open questions I have related to that option, waiting for a reply form they guys at pinsound... is can I obtain the exact original music & voice callouts as in the original ROMs? I do not wish to have anything not original, but rather just better quality

appreciate the reply!

mike