cliveb wrote: > Pat Farrell;148007 Wrote: >> My opinion is that it is not worth it for albums that are still >> available, in print, or whatever the phrase is. > I agree, with the additional caveat that some CD reissues of LPs have > been butchered (either by editing, remixing, or hypercompression). In > those cases, you may feel that a transfer of the original LP is > preferable.
Very true. Especially LPs that were reissued on the early CD days. Modern CDs by engineers and artist who care about sound quality are quite good. Some of the early stuff is dreadful. > Pat Farrell;148007 Wrote: >> I could be wrong, but I thought that once it was digital, the SPDIF >> input's quality makes next to zero difference. > If you do use an external A/D converter running at 44.1kHz, you need to > be careful. Many of the cheaper mainstream cards that have SPDIF inputs > (eg. Soundblasters) resample the incoming stream to their internal > clock speed (48kHz), and since they do it in real time, tend not to > make a particularly good job of it. I forgot about that, lots of cheap stuff works only at 48k sampling, and then you do a crude and rude conversion to 44.1, which never works for quality. The answer is simple, make sure it really does 44.1k. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
