cliveb wrote: > My guess is that back in 1998 you were probably using some sort of old > Soundblaster or perhaps an Ensoniq, probably on an ISA bus. Soundcards > of that era were indeed prone to picking up weird noises from the > activities of other subsystems in the PC - things like the video card, > even the mouse. What made it even more annoying was that the noises were > not constant - you'd often get little "chirrups" coming and going. (I > started digitizing vinyl back in 1994, and used an external A/D > converter going through a Zefiro ZA1 SPDIF I/O card specifically to > avoid those kind of noise problems). > > But in the last 15 or so years, most PCI bus soundcards have been pretty > immune to noise pickup. I use an M-Audio AP2496 and it doesn't pick up > any audible noise at all. The same is true of all the other > well-respected soundcards. That said, if I was in need of a new > soundcard, I'd almost certainly go for an external USB device, simply > because they are more flexible and can be moved easily from PC to PC.
I must have started in about 2009. The initial results were indeed iffy. Largely due to the PCs onboard soundcard. When I moved to USB soundcard the results improved massively. That said a lot has to do with TT setup and the condition of cartridge, styli and the records themselves. All of the software I have ever used has been designed for purpose and follows the same steps as follows: 1) Record to WAV 2) Download album art & metadata 3) Split tracks 4) Apply click correction etc 5) Burn to Audio CD (optional) 6) Write files - your choice of formats I have used Spin It Again but currently use VinylStudio due to its better (IMHO) correction algorythmns. VinylStudio gets very good write ups. *Vortexbox LMS 7.8 music on QNAP TS419p via NFS* - iThingys/iPeng/Tablets *Living Room* - SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 connected Digitally - > Celestion Ditton F20s - and connected Analogue for Zone 2 -> Sony TA FE 320 -> Sennheiser RS 130 *Office* - SB3 -> Sony TA FE320 -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes *Dining Room* -> SB Boom *Kitchen* -> UE Radio (upgraded to SB Radio) *Bedroom (Bedside)* - SB Touch -> Topping TP21 -> AKG Headphones *Bedroom (TV)* - Amazon Fire TV (SB Player) -> Topping TP20 -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ d6jg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44051 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104038 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
