Gildahl makes some excellent points. It can be nearly as easy as playing the records, and it may be cost-effective to do this kind of casual job on the least important things in your collection, buy CDs of a middle tier that you want in better quality, and go fanatic on the irreplaceable treasures.
It gets seductive, though. While you are looking at the waveforms in Audacity, you will see some obvious, strange peaks. You will listen and find that they correspond to pops. Of course, the pops were there when you played the record, and you didn't mind so much, but what if ... You zoom in and find they last about a millisecond, and the listening is a little better without that millisecond than with. Now you're on the slippery slope down to the abyss of audio restoration addiction. -- tom permutt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tom permutt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1893 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21836 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
