ntom wrote: > Was just giving some thought to recording my album collection for SB3. > Anyone have a view as to whether it would be worth attempting 24/96 > recording....? If so any suggestions for suitable sensibly priced A/D > for PC....? > If not I have a digital recorder that offers 44.1 but still need a > spdif i/p for PC....any cards recomended or any to avoid?
I already had 16 channels of 24/96 IO in my studio, plus a serious turntable (or at least serious 15 years ago) with a brand new cartridge. I did four or five LPs. My opinion is that it is not worth it for albums that are still available, in print, or whatever the phrase is. The sound quality was not wonderful, mostly because the LPs were played and loved. Surface noise, etc., was bad. I tried using some of the noise removal plug-ins from my studio's DAW software, and decided that I'd rather have the occasional surface noise than the phase distortion that the plug-ins caused. I was able to use the DAW software to selectively torn on the noise removal for only the clicks, but that is a manual process. I also found that the quality of the preamp was critical. I had my own Dynaco PAT-5 from the early 70s, and it was pretty bad. Could have just been bad capacitors after sitting so long. So I ended up having to get a good preamp with an accurate RIAA equalization curve. (Your local Guitar Center's DJ section has a fair selection, lower than the insane prices of most Audiophile vinyl preamps. So I decided to buy CDs were they were available. The only LPs that I continued to transfer were the ones that were out of print and special, mostly jazz from the late 60s and 70s that never made it to CD. If you are serious about quality, you have to have a ADC that is external to the PC. Nothing about the insides of a PC is compatible with quality analog signals. I have two sets of M-Audio Delta 1010s, which were fairly cool when I got them, but they are now old. They are a lot cheaper now than when I bought them. I could be wrong, but I thought that once it was digital, the SPDIF input's quality makes next to zero difference. -- Pat Farrell PRC recording studio http://www.pfarrell.com/PRC _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
