In Reply to: You don't know me very well :) posted by Ted Smith on April 25, 2006 at 16:12:59:
Anyone who owns more than 1000 SA-CDs will not be happy with a mere 300 LPs :-) But it's a great way to "sample" music - I have ended up buying some of the titles I really like on CD (only to be disappointed when the CD didn't sound as good). But many titles are simply unavailable on digital - I initially found this difficult to believe since there must be zillions of CD titles out there but there you have i.Recording vinyl to digital is pretty transparent as long as you don't do any processing (apart from level changes). Any global processing, including noise reduction, will destroy much of the "magic."
These days I tend to record at 44.1/24 using a pro audio ADC, apply localised click removal (affecting less than 10 samples per click), and then dither down to 16 bits for the CD. I could record at a higher resolution, but resampling pretty much kills the music.
If I had a DSD recorder, I would record to DSD, but 44.1/24 sounds pretty good to me.
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Follow Ups
- Yeah - I forgot - Christine Tham 16:48:26 04/25/06 (7)
- Re: Yeah - I forgot - Ted Smith 17:02:32 04/25/06 (6)
- I tried upsampling to 24/48, 24/96. Makes no differece to my ear. (nt) - pann 22:41:27 04/25/06 (0)
- The evils of resampling :-) - Christine Tham 17:54:22 04/25/06 (4)
- Re: The evils of resampling :-) - fmak 07:05:43 04/26/06 (0)
- Re: The evils of resampling :-) - The Sound Guy 23:14:50 04/25/06 (0)
- Re: The evils of resampling :-) - Ted Smith 21:56:14 04/25/06 (1)
- Re: The evils of resampling :-) - Christine Tham 22:14:30 04/25/06 (0)