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Any one converting their analog into digital?

What is the best way but also reasonably priced of course to convert vinyl into digital that will sound close to the original source a high-end turntable?
Their are a couple of formats above the standard red book of 44k, but which one is best? And what dac would could be recommended? The berkeley? Bryston? Korg?
And what a/d/c would be recommended?
Just a side note, I just don't listen to digital any more since my turntable has been modified, so I'm hoping that there is some way of transfering it into digital that will suffice!
pedrillo
docdan50
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I feed the tape output of my arc ref one to an apogee duet then my mac pro over firewire. Record using audacity or cd spin doctor. Save to aiff at 24/96. Playback through a cambridge dac magic. Sound excellent to me.
riley804
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Wasnt this same thread started not to long ago ?

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1220106824&openflup&11&4#11

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1220236223
pedrillo OP
560 posts
 
Yes Riley but I was wondering if the higher resolution dac's inspired anyone to go with a higher rez adc and how they are implementing this. The berkeley sounds promising and it plays back at 176k.
thunderbill
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Yes, there was at least one other discussion of this topic back in 2005. Very dated but there were some specific pointers to hardware and software. I just entered a plea for some updated info. The link by riley804 looks like the right one or you could try this one http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1122253045
nilthepill
842 posts
 
Pedrillo, perfect timing for the thread. In fact i was thinking about the same past few months. I listen to many electronic/dub music and they mostly come on 12" singles with one or two tracks each side. And they do sound much better on Vinyl ( who would have thunk electronic music sounding better on Vinyl than digital). Mostly I would buy a CD versions of the Vinyl albums, but not for the 12" EPs

One thought I had was buy a real good tube R to R and record directly via system Preamp mostly uncorrupted ( I am thinking but not sure) and the other look for pro digital 16/44.1 tube (?) recorder if they are still available. So I can play on my 16/44.1 digital source
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