[wellylug] Transferring LP's to CD's

[Jonathan Harker]

On Wednesday, 30 April 2003 23:20, Chris Harris wrote:
> > 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.
>
> We found Creative labs tended to work quite well.
>
> Certainly what I found when I was testing cards for voice recognition
> a few years back

These cards along with Turtle Beach are actually not too bad at 
recording, and they seem to have gone to some effort to reduce 
interference from the rest of the PC. I was mainly referring to the 
noname cheapo rubbish out there, and onboard sound.

> I'd be surprised if any of my old LPs have 72dB of dynamic range left
> in them and I'm not going to spend the $1000 or so for the upmarket
> turntable to find out but even with my ac97 MB sound interface, you
> can't tell the difference between the CD and LP it was copied from.
> The speakers responce roll off pretty heavily at 60kHz so not much
> difference in the alpha waves either ;-)

Well having an upmarket TT, Shure cartridge and homebrew preamp makes a 
huge difference, especially if you have good vinyl. When I recorded a 
pristine Vaughan Williams choral LP with a cheap Creative SBLive, it 
recorded fine but it just didn't shimmer and glow the same way. I'd 
love to try the same setup on a 24/192 kHz sound card. I'd also love to 
try your vinyl out! :-) Did you give it a good clean first?

Luv Jon