cliveb;346562 Wrote: > 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.
Clive is quite right. One other piece of advice - when recording do not have the music playing over speakers to monitor things - this avoids your turntable being affected by sound waves in the room (acoustic feedback). As a long time (15+ years) ex-LP12 user with hundreds of drops recorded, I can confirm this makes a BIG difference to bass quality of the needle-drop. Whatever the LP12 was good at, acoustic isolation was not its forte! I'd use 44.1/24 if available. There's nothing much worth hearing above 15Khz on LP's that have been played a few times. If you are over 40 - as I am - you really won't be hearing much over 12-13Khz anyway, if you are lucky and have looked after your ears. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann JISCO/UPCI - TACT RCS 2.2X + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods)- Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Kimber & Chord cables Outdoors: Boombox+Creative Sub (If I remember to turn it on...) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53264 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
