[wellylug] Transferring LP's to CD's

[Peter Jones]

Was vinyl *ever* CD quality?

(I sense a golden ear argument coming on :-) )

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Harker [mailto:jharker at massey.ac.nz]
> Sent: Wednesday, 30 April 2003 09:57
> To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] Transferring LP's to CD's
> 
> 
> On Monday, 28 April 2003 23:16, Chris Harris wrote:
> > most of which can be solved by taking the line-out from the pre-amp
> > and being careful with the levels.
> 
> Well, no see that's my point. Even if you've got preamp output at a 
> decent level, you're still limited at the PC end by mostly crap AD 
> circuitry unless you've spent a decent amount of money on audio gear. 
> Most sound cards, being less than $200, have put the money on DA 
> output, not on AD input. So they sound okay but generally 
> record pretty 
> badly. Any number of Sound on Sound articles will confirm this. Try 
> recording silence from your line in connected to your amp, and then 
> have a listen up loud to the hard disk activity, CPU, and other 
> interference that you get on a cheap card. Built in motherboard 
> circuitry is probably the worst for this. And its resolution 
> is pobably 
> only about 12 bits...
> 
> > don't expect it to be 'CD quality' though :-)
> 
> Precisely :-)
> 
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> Jonathan Harker
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