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RE: About digital recording of analogue sources

I you are going to go through all the bother of cleaning the LP, transferring it taking care nobody is walking about creating footfalls, and listen to it to make sure there were no screwups then you would be foolish not to do it at the highest possible resolution digital format. This is the format you should archive and backup. If you need portable copies or copies to give to your friends, etc. you can downsample the hi-res files to whatever format you desire. At 176/24 loss less compressed is about 2.3 GB per hour. DSD128 will be about twice as large. Disk storage is under $0.10 per GB. How much do you value your time?

One other thing you may notice on LP transfers is that the lower resolution digital magnifies the impact of any clicks or ticks.

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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