I've done excellent vinyl to digital with an Ensoniq PCI card. Jan On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 03:55, Daniel James wrote: > > The hardware I'm running is an Athlon 850 with 256k RAM. > > 256MB, I hope :) > > > The sound > > card is an SB16 ISA. > > If you're attempting to do vinyl to digital transfer, using this card could be > a false economy. Getting something like an M Audio Audiophile could be > cheaper than buying the same music again on CD. Even a cheap emu10k1 PCI card > like the SBLive would probably be well worth the upgrade. > > You'll also need a good turntable and pre-amp to get the most out of the > vinyl. When weighing up the cost, bear in mind that the remastering people > producing official CD re-releases will probably be working from studio master > tapes, except for very rare or old material. > > Personally, having looked at the time it would take to record all my shellac > and vinyl, and allowing for the possibility that some subtle properties of > analogue recording would be lost in the transfer, I decided to keep a couple > of turntables around. > > I'd probably make an exception for some rare 78's, like a couple of 1940's BBC > transcription discs that I found in a junk shop. With hand-written labels, > they seem to be field recordings from the days before tape was available. > Their uniqueness and fragility makes a digital recording something I've been > meaning to get around to. > > Cheers > > Daniel
