>From my purely subjective experience, 16/44 rips of vinyl are for all practical purposes indistinguishable from the source. So there's no benefit of going to higher sample rates or greater bit depths other than for greater processing headroom as others have said.
When I had too much time on my hands a while back I ripped both sides of a Classic Records 12in single of Dusty Springfield singing The Look of Love from Casino Royale - one side 33rpm, the other 45rpm. I also have Classic's "DVD" disc of Casino Royale with 24/96 on one side and 24/192 on the other, and did a comparison of the various formats/resolutions. The 45rpm rip at 16/44 was a match for either side of the DVD, and no better or worse than playing the vinyl. I use M-Audio's Transit USB box as an ADC into my Mac, fed from a Graham Slee Era V Gold phono stage via a Sudgen Headmaster pre-amp. -- morris_minor Living Room: SB3/SBC > Sonifex RB DAC1 > Musical Fidelity X10v3 > Sudgen Headmaster > Yamaha DSPAX-750SE Kitchen: SBR > Sony Minisystem [via Homeplug AV ethernet] Server: TranquilPC T2-WHS-A3i SC 7.2.1 - 23630 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ morris_minor's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13950 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57431 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
