Michael J. Mahon wrote:
I still have have about 400 vinyl LP records, although I've been chipping away at transcribing them to CD (48Khz. PCM, NOT MP3 thankyou-very-much). I'm one of those folks who refuses to buy something twice just to have it on different media :-).My collection is similar, and I received a USB turntable as a present, so maybe such conversion is in my future. Now, if I could just get a robot to keep putting the disks on the turntable and turning them over. ;-)
When you get that one solved, please let me know? My robot would also have to clean dust off the stylus and trim the threshold on my Burwen click and pop eliminator. I have had much better success using the analog tick reduction up front than by doing it in the digital domain. YMMV.
I looked briefly at the USB turntables, but did not have confidence in the quality of the ADCs they use. I inherited enough phono cartridges and turntables to last a lifetime, so I plugged an existing unit into a high-quality preamp and ran the line outputs in my Intel HDA sound card (96-bit resolution). After each album is copied into Audacity, I make a cleanup pass in the digital domain to get rid of groove noise (~10db reduction). Results on a relatively pristine vinyl record are simply stunning!
Steve