cliveb wrote: > On a good day and with a following wind, maybe :-) > IME typical vinyl is equivalent to more like 10 or 11 bits. > > > Since even the best vinyl struggles to achieve 12 bits of dynamic range, > that's 24dB of potential headroom. Although that does assume a 16 bit > ADC linear down to the LSB, so let's be generous and lop off a couple of > bits. That still leaves us 12dB of headroom when setting recording > levels. If anyone can't operate within those generous limits, perhaps > they should find another hobby. > > One possible argument for doing the initial recording at 24 bit would be > so you can avoid any possible accumulation of quantisation errors during > post-recording DSP (eg. EQ, filtering, etc). To which I would respond > that vinyl has such enormous levels of background noise that you can > probably afford to make several DSP passes without even bothering to > dither and the accumulated rounding errors would still be way below the > level of the (faithfully recorded) vinyl surface noise. > > d6jg: stick with the Behringer (a UCA 202 or 222, I presume?)
Yes Clive. I have a Behringer UCA202 and also a Behringer VMS200USB mixer that operates at 16/48. The mixer is great for ripping vinyl as after recording a single swipe R to L switches to playback mode for track splitting purposes. Behringer kit is inexpensive but very well made. *Vortexbox LMS 7.9 music on QNAP TS419p via NFS* iThingys/iPeng/Tablets *Living Room* - SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 - > Celestion Ditton F20s - Zone 2 -> Sony TA FE 320 -> Sennheiser RS 130 & B&W P7 *Office* - RPi -> Sony TA FE320 -> Celestion F10s / SB3 -> Onkyo CRN 755 -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes *Dining Room* -> SB Boom *Kitchen* -> UE Radio (upgraded to SB Radio) *Bedroom (Bedside)* - SB Touch -> Topping TP21 -> AKG Headphones *Bedroom (TV)* - Amazon Fire TV (SB Player) -> Topping TP20 -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ d6jg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44051 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106935 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
