nicketynick;226392 Wrote: > cliveb will likely be along shortly with a more informative comment! You rang, sir? (Doffs cap, tugs forelock, etc :-)
nicketynick;226392 Wrote: > I have the ADSTech box - it comes with a Nero software suite, and it > does exactly as you say - it records a .wav file to your hard-drive, > which you can then do whatever you like to. I've never seen the ADSTech device in the flesh, but looking at their website, it appears to simply be a USB soundcard, and a fairly cheap one at that. There are literally dozens of similar devices available from a host of manufacturers. Creative make them, as do M-Audio, Terratec, the list goes on. The ADSTech device might be great - I have no idea. But it could also be garbage (as maggior has suggested). If you want a USB soundcard, then it is probably safer to buy a reputable brand. The M-Audio Transit is well-regarded and not too expensive. If you definitely want a cheap one, then I'd think something like the Creative Soundblaster Connect or Soundblaster Surround 5.1 would be a safer buy. (Not that I'd personally buy a Creative soundcard, but they are widely available and are known to work OK). Regardless of which soundcard you buy, you're not limited to using the bundled software. Pretty much any recording program will be able to make use of pretty much any soundcard. RalphO;226450 Wrote: > You have understood my method correctly. You are also right it is a lot > of work hence my search for a more timely method. I have not had any > problem with sample rate adjustments and I have been pleased with the > results so far. Regarding the process of recording first to your DVD and then transferring from there. Firstly, I strongly suspect that the audio that gets recorded by the DVD player is the standard AC3 codec used on video DVDs, which is a lossy compressed format. It's normally sampled at 48kHz, and that is no problem encoding to FLAC. (Only if you wanted to burn it to an audio format CDR would you need to convert to 44.1kHz). Incidentally, how are you extracting the audio from the DVD, and then how do you convert the AC3 to FLAC? Recording directly to a PC without going via this intermediate step means you can record straight to uncompressed WAV format, retaining the maximum possible sound quality. RalphO;226450 Wrote: > My point was that my experiences of trying to use a soundcard in the PC > is the level of noise within the PC. The inside of a PC is a very noisy environment, but contrary to intuition, modern internal (PCI bus) soundcards are amazingly invulnerable to it. For example, the M-Audio AP2496 has a noise floor of about -93dB. Cards like the Lynx2 and DAL Card Deluxe manage well below -110dB. Even the humble Creative Audigy can get down to below -80dB. These sort of noise floor figures are more than enough to cope with the signal from vinyl (which has a typical noise floor around -60dB, if you're lucky). So if you have a desktop PC, a decent PCI bus soundcard will give you the best sound quality at a given price point. (But avoid using on-board sound - that is usually a bit dodgy). If you only have a laptop, then a good USB soundcard is the only feasible option. A USB soundcard would also work well with a desktop PC, of course, so it's the most flexible solution. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38304 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
