Having recently purchased a SB Receiver, I have been hugely impressed by the sound quality when playing DG FLAC and Linn "studio master" downloads, so am now seriously considering the purchase of a Transporter, a NAS and an audio interface box, to start ripping my LP collection.
For playback, I will be feeding the signal back through my CD player (which has digital inputs and can be used as a DAC for external digital sources). The ripping will be done via my Mac Pro - so any software packages, hardware drivers, etc. need to support Mac OS X. Three questions: 1. What is regarded as a reasonable word length and sampling rate for making nice quality copies of records? (I am thinking that 24 bit / 96kHz FLAC files would be a good starting point, but have no idea if that is correct.) 2. What audio interfaces would be good for this purpose, to go via my Mac to the NAS? (I will be using a reasonably well spec'ed LP12, and would like something of comparable quality.) Is USB or Firewire connection a sensible option, or is an internally fitted card better? 3. Recommended ripping software (for the Mac) that is well suited to handling the input from LPs? I'm quite new to this computer audio stuff (having been a rather old-fashioned hi-fi guy for several decades ....), so I'd be most grateful for any advice or recommendations! Thanks! -- Vereina ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Vereina's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22342 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57431 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
