TheLastMan;346521 Wrote: > Not quite. It is a two stage process. First it records the LP (there > is a pause button so you can flip it over) into a single large WAV > file. You can set this up how you like, so I set this to encode > 24/88.2. I then listened to this WAV file which showed up the > distortion. I listened both through SIA and through dbPoweramp and > both sounded distorted. Ah, right. In that case it sounds as if the problem might be in the M-Audio driver and/or hardware. If you want to upload a small fragment of a hi-res file exhibiting the distortion, I'm sure some of us would be interested in taking a look to try and help diagnose the source of the distortion.
Since you describe it as a "grainy hiss", my guess would be that there's something inside your PC that's causing some kind of interference in the soundcard's circuitry, but only when running at high sample rates. (I have noticed that the noise performance of my own AP2496 is motherboard-specific. I've never experienced interference on recording, but with one mobo I had the analogue outputs were affected by PS/2 mouse activity). But being pragmatic, there's little point in recording vinyl LPs at higher than 44.1kHz - any signal above 22kHz that comes off the LP is going to be almost completely noise & distortion. No point wasting disk space on garbage. So if you get no distortion/noise at 44.1kHz, that's an obvious 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=53264 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
