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undecided

Posted by dwk (A) on May 11, 2007 at 11:56:27

In Reply to: Software Based RIAA Equalization For Best Quality Vinyl Archival? posted by NuMystic on May 10, 2007 at 10:41:08:

I've been thinking about this technique off and on for a while, and still haven't come to a conclusion. I definately agree that theoretically it looks great - a simple differential balanced pre into a balanced pro card like the Emu 'should be' as transparent as you can get.
The aspect that I'm worried about is headroom. Without the attenuation of the RIAA stage at higher freqs, pops and clicks would seem very likely to induce digital clipping, and that's something that can't be fixed after the fact.

My thought is that a pre that incorporates only the first ~50Hz pole might be the way to go. It gives you the 6db/Oct attenuation to preserve headroom, but is still (maybe?) simple enough to retain very high quality at relatively low cost.

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