d6jg wrote: > Main use is transfer to FLAC. I have two rigs to do this - one in the > Living Room (the Sherwood that is to be replaced), and one in my Office > (the Trio) - both feed Behringer USB DAC's and I digitise using > VinylStudio. OK, since you're doing needle drops it certainly makes sense to have the ability to easily change cartridges to find the best match. That said, what's more important is having the ability to change stylus profiles. Assuming these are used LPs you're transferring, they will have groove degradation brought about by previous playing. Finding a stylus profile that tracks an undamaged section of groove wall can be one of the most useful starting points when digitizing vinyl. So if you are going to have a bunch of cartridges, see if you can get different stylus types in them, ie. spherical (sometimes called conical), elliptical, hyper-elliptical (sometimes called fine-line).
d6jg wrote: > I am happy to stick with 16bit/44.1Khz 16/44.1 is certainly more than adequate to capture the signal that comes off any vinyl record. (True, there is sometimes some kind of output above 20kHz, but it's nearly all noise and distortion). d6jg wrote: > but recently decided to switch from 320Kbps VBR0 Mp3 to FLAC so I am > re-doing the whole process. I was about 70% through my vinyl with the > Mp3 conversion. That bothers me. It implies that you are encoding to MP3 or FLAC in real time as you digitize the LP. This is not really a sensible option. Even if you're not interested in restoration as such, you will want to be able to do at least cursory editing of the recording, eg. trimming off unwanted lead-in/lead-out, some kind of normalisation, etc. If you're doing that from MP3 in an audio editor, you'll be going through a decode/encode process each time you load and save the file,which you really want to avoid. If it's FLAC, the decode/encode step is benign. But there may be some useful tools out there that only work on uncompressed WAV files, so it makes sense to do everything in WAV format until you're ready to do a final encoding to FLAC. Having said all the above, 320kbps MP3 is almost always audibly transparent, so if you've already done a ton of transfers, think hard before going to all the trouble of re-doing them. Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104038 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
