I recently bought a USB turntable to easily rip from vinyl to FLAC (using Audacity). It works well, and is very easy to use - but the resultant FLAC bitrates are lower than I would have expected. I don't have that much vinyl and have only ripped around 10 tracks so far, but I'm seeing bitrates of anything between 300 and 700. Very similar tracks (e.g. remixes of the same track) on CD are achieving appreciably higher bitrates.
Basically - I was just wondering if this could be down to the hardware itself (either the conversion to digital, or perhaps the stylus)? The unit I bought is made by SoundPro - it was about the best I could find with a USB function, but wondering if maybe I should try upgrading the cartridge? Anyone got any experience of this sort of thing? Cheers! Dan. -- gutted http://www.last.fm/user/gutt3d/ Slimserver 6.5.4 +MusicIP Mixer 1.7.1 +AlienBBC 1.06 +Slimscrobbler 0.37.5 Windows 2000 Professional sp4 Intel Celeron 1.4GHz 512MB RAM Squeezebox 3 wireless (Player Firmware Version: 55) Library of approx 8800 tracks (MP3 and FLAC) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gutted's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=147 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43858 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
