new record-cleaning machine, digital recorder, 25 new albums (a mix of stuff I had on CD/download and new stuff). we're talking a week or so! It's been a fun week though. So far, the few albums I've ripped I've kept the original capture files, and then the tagged/split individual files, and that put me on a path to having the "old" rips. Though I will say that I prefer vinyl, from an enjoyment-perspective, when I 'm going to listen to a whole album.Ĭlick to expand.Storage is certainly cheap enough to do that.
it was purely a quality/convenience (well, and cost) concern for me - since I tend to flip-flop between whether I think vinyl or digital is superior.
I have to admit, I didn't even think about it from a moral perspective. Or just focus the time on the turntable and vinyl for a bit. Getting back on topic, I can't decide if I want to take things further, given how encouraged I am so far, and change/upgrade the aspects of the system that matter in this context (a seperate phono stage, switchable/software EQ, higher-resolution recording, other recording/processing software). Given the results on the first few I've done though, I think I'm just going to buy the vinyl, do the needle drop, and between that and TIDAL, call it good. But then even the good files are lossy, and it means you're limited to buying from Amazon. Though I will say that I prefer vinyl, from an enjoyment-perspective, when I 'm going to listen to a whole album.Īuto-rip fixes the convenience issue, although the quality is hugely variable and some of the files sound like they were done using a toy microphone held up to the speaker on a 70's vintage Fidelity HF43. encouraged and looking to do more!Ĭlick to expand.I have to admit, I didn't even think about it from a moral perspective. That's something I'm going to explore more, I'm sure, as I start looking at noisier discs.Ī quick test of dynamic range of that recording yielded an average score of "15" (per the methodology used by the Dynamic Range Database).Ĭertainly sounds better than the "auto-rip" files I got via Amazon when I ordered the album! WAV files through Vinyl Studio for some minimal editing and splitting.Ī quick play of a fresh, just-cleaned, 180gr version of "Hotel California" yielded very little noise - to the point where I haven't bothered with de-clicking yet as any clicks and noise on this rip are only audible in the lead-in/track gaps. Then I'm running the resultant 24 bit/96 KHz. Of course, there's a flexibility trade-off there and, I would expect, an impact to quality. This is simple and straightforward, only uses one cable, and means I'm not messing around setting recording levels and so on. Rather than going though another DAC->ADC cycle, I'm just taking the S/PDIF output straight off the Linn and into the digital input on a little Tascam DR-100MkII. This has a pretty nice built-in MM/MC switchable phono-stage and, like all the analog inputs on the unit, it feeds straight into a very solid internal ADC, and then it applies the RIAA EQ in the digital domain. I'm using my turntable with a Linn Akurate DSM/1. So far I've been more than pleasantly surprised. Were I to do it again I think I would get the Hilo as I think it's flexibility is unmatched by anything else on the market.Īs I'm getting ever-more-rapidly sucked back into vinyl, I decided to actually try a few needle drops - just to see how good the results were (and to get past my more-FOMO-like paranoia about wanting to buy both a CD and vinyl version of each album for both quality/convenience purposes). I like my TASCAM DA-3000 a lot but I never use the DSD functionality and going back and forth to swap out SD cards gets tiresome. I've listening a lot and IMO with my settings the false positive rate is somewhere between very very low and non existent.įor anything electronic where you could get something resembling a square waveform or music that intentionally has noise inserted I would strongly avoid auto-declick and do it manually.
I prefer it to iZotope RX declick for everything except badly damaged records (goldmine G or G-).ĭeclick Strength: 1 Decrackle: Off Wavelet: On Pitch Protection: On Reverse: Onįor acoustic music I think auto declick is OK.
#Vinylstudio vs pure vinyl software#
For vinyl rips I find iZotope RX is the best processing software by a significant margin.Ĭlick Repair is my go to choice for declick. Quality of processing and algorithms it comes in dead last.
#Vinylstudio vs pure vinyl free#
It's free but that's about all it's got going for it.
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