Great system. I'll come over and bring the libations and a few LPs.
Earl
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On 7/30/2004 at 2:19 PM jking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>> Hi Boris,
>>
>> I highly recommend buying a Soundblaster Audigy 2 with 192 kHz/24 bits
>> with
>> digital to noise ratio of 106 dB. Why? Because, everybody knows that
>vinyl
>> records are much better than CDs 44.1 kHz /16 bits. SuperAudioCDs is
>equal
>> to vinyl.
>
>It depends how much money you want to spend, how good your ear/hifi is and
>how many records you want to transfer. I had about 2000lps and a carefully
>ballanced hifi designed only around playing classical lps..
>
>I tried the sound blaster live originally. *Hoplessly* noisy analogue
>inputs. far noisier than a good lp playing. More noisy than a good
>cassette deck (tandberg 3034) without any noise reduction! sound way off
>the pace muddy flat horrible. So poor that cd remasters of my lps sounded
>better than the lps transfer to computer. Cannot recommend unless you have
>a cheap midi system.
>
>I then tried the maudiophile 24/96 (about 150 pounds) is not bad using its
>on board ADC but not as good as reasonable cassette deck say Tandberg 3034
>but very quiet. However, good open reel like a Teac, Tandberg or
>Ferrograph walks the floor with it at 15" per second. Even at 96Khz 24bit
>there is a loss of stereo image and everything sounds flat and grey. (its
>far worse if you go 16 bit 44khz). Its also easy to overload its inputs
>because the volume control works in the *digital* domain AFTER the ADC
>conversion so if the input is too high for the ADC then you will get
>clipping and distortion.
>
>next I went for a external ADC converter (300 pounds) and connected it to
>the maudiophiles digital inputs and outputs. Result still not good enough
>for me but it solved the input overload problem.
>
>my conclusion to faithfully transfer music from my system on to computer
>without losing all the fine detail is not ecconomically viable.
>
>For references here is my system with prices when new or ebay prices for
>the old stuff
>garrard 401 (150 ebay)
>in loricraft plinth and loricraft regulated power supply (500 new)
>hadcock 242se incognito wired (600 new)
>ortofon mc 25fl (225 new)
>Kinshaw perception sa phono stage (750 new)
>kinshaw perception pre amp (1000 new)
>Quad 63 electrostatic speakers (3500 new)
>quad II amps (600 ebay) rebuilt by myself (600) with audio note resistors,
>cards wire, audio note paper in oil caps and black gate power supply and
>cathde caps. kiwame cathde resistor.
>
>
>Regards
>JAmes
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