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Methods for transfer of albums to CD

A friend of mine has a very large collection of mint albums, including a beatles import box set, and a franklin mint jazz anthology which includes some fantastic music. I own a computer with a HP cd burner, Roxio Easy CD creator 5 software, but no decent sound card. I was wondering if any of you have had any success at creating good sounding CD's from vinyl, and what equipment I might need. I am sure I need a sound card for the computer with an analog and/or digital input, and one of the add on phono pre-amps, which I would likely use later to add analog to my system. Any suggestions and or experiences, both good and bad, will be appreciated. My current system:

Cary 808 amp, SLP 2002 pre-amp, Theta pro gen and Data, B&W 802 Matrix II, and a Windows 95 based PC with CD burner.

Mike
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sidssp
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I am thinking about doing the same but instead of burning CD I would like to sample LPs to 24/96 PCM tracks and burn them on DVD. That way if I play them back through a high quality DAC I can preserve more of the hi-res of LPs.

I am also looking for a reasonable priced outboard 24/96 A-to-D converter with either RS-232 or USB output. Does anyone konw of any?
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onhwy61
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Abstract7, Digigram VX Pocket is both Windows and Mac compatible.
lazarus28
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sidssp, the audiophile 2496 can sample at 24/96 - hence it's name
gboren
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Sidssp:
do you (or does anybody else) know of software for a pc that will burn a 24/96 wav file onto a dvd in dvd-a format?
bwhite
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Not sure if anyone else mentioned this but I believe this is a task which the tubed ART DI\O was intended to do. Many "audiophiles" have been buying these for under 200 and modifying them to perform in their systems as DAC's. However the product was intended to be used as an A to D converter.

If you do some research on ART DIO, you will learn about some very excited people who have in their opinions found temporary (until the format war is complete) audio nirvana with this unit.
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