zzzap;642087 Wrote: > This idea first got me exited as I want to get my feet wet with ADM. > Then I realized the ADC will have they're own signature and therefore > make it difficult to share reference data as easily as I first thought > as most of us doesn't have the same sound card.
This is correct. Unfortunately there is no way round this. Fortunately, excellent quality soundcards can be had for (relatively) little money. If using a reference REDBOOK recording mastered before roughly the mid-90's, the chances are that the sonic capabilities of a good modern 24/96 or 24/192 soundcard will equal or outstrip those of the entire recording/mastering chain. Interestingly enough, it seems that whilst many audiophile DAC's are actively "voiced", ADC's tend to be designed to be "flat" or "neutral". I'm not saying they are all identical (far from it), but I've found the ones I've tried to be pretty consistent so far. ESI Juli, RME Hammerfall and M-Audio Audiophile 24/192, Lynx, Apogee and Lavry Blue (expensive!) are all excellent ADC's. It's worth bearing in mind that the bits captured on recordings by early ADC's (ones which NO-ONE would buy these days..) still sound good in many cases. No matter what modern soundcard is used it is going to be capable of accurately capturing what's left of the music that has passed through one (or more likely several!) of those early ADC's. I can imagine people reading this in mild disbelief. All I can say is; try listening to a vinyl rip done properly via a modern "decent" soundcard... does it or does it not sound as good as playing the vinyl? (Hundreds of thousands of people who use vinyl rips all the time think they absolutely do...). -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Belden Digital,Kimber 8TC Speaker & Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84742 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
