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sawyer252017-09-08T00:43:14-00:00Re: Converting vinyl
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There are lots of technical issues surrounding analog-to-digital and the reverse digital-to-analog conversions. Some are audible, others less so. Naturally, high-quality conversions give the best results, but require faster hardware and more bandwidth. Storage requirements are greater for larger higher-quality files too.
Study things like conversion types, e.g. successive-aproximation, delta-sigma, etc. And study the artifacts each can suffer from, things like aliasing, quantization error and jitter.
]]>Wayne Parham2017-09-08T01:03:47-00:00Re: Converting vinyl
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mamoss2017-09-09T08:27:43-00:00Re: Converting vinyl
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You can buy USB turntables, but they are terrible. No point in talking about quality issues with something like that because they are bottom-of-the-barrel devices.
If quality is desired, use a good turntable and a computer with a good sound card; Sample the signal with a high resolution, e.g. 44K/16bits or more, and save the file in a lossless data format. Do not let the signal clip when sampling.