If all you are doing is straight vinyl rips with no DSP post-processing, 16/44.1 is perfectly adequate and produces results that are indistinguishable from the the original vinyl and/or higher-res captures. I've done over 600 rips. The quality of the vinyl, turntable, arm, stylus, head amp and ADC are crucial. The resolution/bit-depth isn't.
In the studio I'd use 24/96 all the time, because I'm going to be doing some heavyweight DSP and need the "wiggleroom" for the maths. Without any DSP, 16/44.1 captures all you need. What you get off even the best vinyl is far removed from what is on the tape masters unfortunately... that's assuming there are tape masters :-). Pressed Vinyl just doesn't have the dynamic range, noise floor, frequency response etc of 30ips half-inch tape. Doing 24-bit capture of master tapes with their > 96dB dynamic range makes sense. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB3 (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Outdoors: Boom ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65876 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
