Eric Seaberg;273203 Wrote: > I don't understand why everyone is recommending digitizing vinyl at > 96k!! 24-bit, yes, but don't waste the disk space doing 96k! There's > nothing on the vinyl worthy of that! If you'll pardon the paraphrasing: I don't understand why people are recommending digitizing vinyl at 24 bit. There's nothing on the vinyl worthy of that.
Sample rate: A typical vinyl LP has a top-end response of about 18kHz, many as low as 16kHz. A few audiophile pressings might manage a little bit more than that. True, some kind of signal comes off the LP at higher frequencies, but it's overwhelmingly noise and distortion. 44.1kHz is perfectly adequate. Bit depth: A typical vinyl LP has a dynamic range of about 60dB on a good day. A few audiophile pressings might manage as much as 70dB if they're very lucky. 16bits is more than enough. I can only think of one reason to record LPs at 24bit resolution, and that is if you're planning to perform huge numbers of DSP operations for restoration purposes. Even then, you'd need to do lots of that before the rounding errors accumulated enough to raise the quantisation noise sufficiently to be audible over the vinyl noise. And even if you do initially record at 24bit, once all the editing has been completed, 16bit is way more than adequate as a delivery standard, so you can dither back down. Eric Seaberg;273203 Wrote: > Keep it at 48k/24-bit and save some disk space. Or keep it at 44.1/16 and save a bit more. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 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
